Word: rockier
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Will Barack Obama's second fortnight turn out to be rockier than his first...
...Kowal, three other rookies saw time in Friday’s game. So far, Leone has no qualms about throwing them into tight situations—he not only played all five in the first half, when the lead was comfortable, but also gave them major minutes in the rockier moments of the second frame.“We’re trying to play each one of them every chance we get,” Leone said. “They’re getting better every game.“It was a gritty performance...
...financial markets all over the world, rockier now than they've been in over half a decade, rarely has an investing verity been more important: information - solid, accurate information - is as good as gold. When market pundits and analysts prattle on these days about the "re-rating of risk" and the lack of "liquidity" in the markets, what they are really talking about are gauges, however crude, of ignorance - and of fear based on ignorance. In the unfolding financial story of the year - the bursting of the global economy's credit bubble - "the biggest problem is we don't know...
...second half, Knox came up big again from beyond the arc, this time to give the Crimson its largest lead of the game (13) with 11:35 to play. In the early going, it seemed as though the road to the Big Dance might prove a bit rockier than expected. Still technically in the Ivy title hunt, Cornell opened the game with three-pointers from Kayleen Fitzsimmons and Allie Fedorowicz and went on to score 21 points in the first 10 minutes. But the Crimson tightened up its defense from that point, allowing just five points after...
...flat as the rice fields that run to the horizons southeast of Houston, but it has been a roller-coaster ride for Republicans, in yet another of those once safe G.O.P. districts that is now a gleam in the eye of Democratic Party leaders. "If this race gets any rockier, writing about it will require a chisel," Bob Dunn, editor of the FortBendNow news blog, told his readers...