Word: rushing
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...closer look at the measure--all but approved last week by a conference committee in the rush to pass the giant telecommunications-reform bill before Christmas--suggests it may be a bigger problem than the one it aims to solve. For one thing, it does little about the kind of sexual material that has stirred up the strongest public anxieties (images of bestiality, pedophilia and the like). Such material is already flatly banned by federal statutes on obscenity and child pornography. The Justice Department has made it clear that it has all the laws it needs to police...
...called empty barrel, or open spaces, hypothesis, which compares the Cambrian organisms to homesteaders on the prairies. The biosphere in which the Cambrian explosion occurred, in other words, was like the American West, a huge tract of vacant property that suddenly opened up for settlement. After the initial land rush subsided, it became more and more difficult for naive newcomers to establish footholds...
...Sometimes when I stay up till three in the morning, I'll start playing Nintendo or Doom. That way I get into the game and your brain works faster because of the adrenaline," said Engstrom. After playing these games, the rush usually carries him for another hour or two, he said...
...announced the Harvard single-reason rushing record with 1,102 yards is 1995. His 1994 performance of 1,011 yards is third on the all-time liet. Hu is the first Harvard player to rush for 1,000 yards in more than one season. Hu's 2,112 career rushing yards places very close to 2,130, the all-time mark set by Vic Gattc...
Well, perhaps at this point, when Bob Dole can't seem to decide where exactly to stand in order to reach his dream, the best rationale for his candidacy can be found in the satirical lyrics sung on the Don Imus radio show by a Rush Limbaugh impersonator to the tune of Bob Seger's Old Time Rock 'n' Roll...