Word: ranging
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...Montreal stadium for $10 an hour, and she was waitressing at an Edmonton coffee shop. While the rest of the skating universe was still buzzing about the Nagano Olympics, Pelletier flew to Edmonton for a second try, and the two clicked. The minute Pelletier got back home, the phone rang, and it was Sale. "We put our cards on the table and decided, 'Let's get started,'" recalls Pelletier...
...dining hall chandeliers at the “Olympiad.” The flags of many nations hung from walls or sprang from centerpieces; bright cloth napkins bedecked the tables. The theme from “Chariots of Fire,” as well as other vaguely martial music, rang from speakers. With cryptic symbolism, a smoke machine belched beside the Annenberg card swiper’s desk. Some dining hall workers were festively clad in funny hats...
...Nation of Islam to spout racist rhetoric and promote a homemade version of Islam, he showed his vulnerability to cults, but he later revealed his strengths by walking away. Perhaps Ali's greatest American-rebel moment was when he refused to go into the military service: he rang a chord going all the way back to the Civil War, when some whites refused to defend slavery for slave owners who had no respect for them either...
...quadriplegic under house arrest. But it's never been harder to quell the activists of Hamas. When armed police from Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority moved in to surround the Gaza City home of Sheik Ahmed Yassin, founder and spiritual leader of the movement whose name means zeal, calls rang from the loudspeakers of local mosques, "Go and rescue Sheik Yassin!" The security men were greeted with a hail of stones and occasional gunfire from several thousand defiant Hamas loyalists determined to show Arafat, just like Israel, how much they have become a force to be reckoned with...
...N.Y.S.E.'s Bob Zito, who filters the requests, says the first five months of 2002 are almost booked. As a courtesy, Zito will call the volunteers on a bad market day to let them bow out, rather than be publicly tarred with a bearish brush. (President Clinton never rang the bell; his advisers warned him that the image would be replayed endlessly if the market dropped.) But while ringing was once limited mainly to heads of state and tony Wall Street types, things have got loosey-goosey lately. Since Sept. 17, when a phalanx of leaders appeared to help instill...