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Harvard coaches will also scout players through summer camps or the Olympic Development Program. They also pore over All-State and All-American lists, and sit quietly in the stands at regional tournaments...
...government's borrowing authority, Newt Gingrich has changed his mind. The House Speaker today said Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin's projection that the federal debt limit would be reached by Oct. 31 could be "a Halloween trick to try to scare people." Instead, Gingrich wants plenty of time to pore over the figures. Rubin's warning Tuesday had scuttled Republican plans to tie the emergency debt-limit increase to their dramatic budget cuts. Who's right? Says TIME's Karen Tumulty: "The people who have the most to lose from this -- the markets -- don't seem to be worried...
Most chess matches of this caliber have been held in grand halls, with hushed audiences watching the players onstage. This time Kasparov and Anand pore over the board in a 3-m by 6-m soundproof booth. There are a few choice, $75 seats in the makeshift King's Room overlooking the booth, but the action is livelier in the cheap folding chairs next door, where chess mavens can follow the match via TV or computer. Helped along by animated commentators Maurice Ashley ("E-5? Funky!") and Danny King, amateurs and grand masters alike try to anticipate each move. When...
Fortunately, Republicans have a few aggressive pork busters in their ranks, most notably Arizona Senator John McCain. While most lawmakers pay little attention to the thousands of line items in appropriations bills, he has assigned a sharp-eyed 29-year-old staff member, Mark Buse, to pore over them and monitor the Senate floor for as long as 13 hours at a stretch. Buse has earned the nickname "the ferret" -- as well as the enmity of Senators annoyed by his zealous impertinence. But Peter Sepp, a spokesman for the National Taxpayers Union, says, "Mark's efforts have been absolutely critical...
...bring a camera. Inevitalbly, it will be buried under piles of unwashed laundry in the bottom of your closet when prime Kodak moments arise, but any photos are fun to pore through later...