Word: ring
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...current transit system in the Greater Boston area is a radial system, with subway and commuter rail lines spreading out like spokes from hubs, such as Park Street and North Station. This idea of an urban ring would create transit lines running in a circle around the urban area...
...SAYS About 100 phone lines were forwarded to ring at other numbers by outgoing Clinton staffers...
...WHITE HOUSE SAYS The GAO understates the confusion the phone forwarding caused "throughout the complex." The chief of staff's line, for instance, "had been forwarded to ring at a phone in a closet...
...fright figure explained the mutual-politeness pact between himself and Lewis by comparing it to the pigeons he now keeps in his spare time. They would scrap ferociously until they were fed, he said. Then they became placid and still. Intentionally or not, the metaphor carried over to the ring, where the issue had been joined and resolved, and the eight-figure purses enjoyed by both fighters had surely sated their appetites - at least for a while...
...Kidd-like guard Mike Bibby, put them into Game 7 with the star-driven Lakers of Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant. Either of these Western teams seems to have too much talent for the Nets to handle. Yet Kidd knows it will take a championship ring to satisfy his critics, who have been expecting big things from him since he was a high school phenom in the Bay Area. "The shoe fits perfectly for us," he says. "We're the underdogs. We've been put down all season. Nobody is going to give us a chance...