Word: second
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Harvard came back from the break with a bang, racking up another touchdown within three minutes of the second half’s start. After Scales ran to get the ball past midfield, Gordon put together a spectacular 48-yard run to score...
...often, almost all of the current City Council [members] do not pay attention to the issues,” said James Williamson, a second-time challenger who expressed pessimism about his election chances but said he hopes to draw attention to the Council’s ineffectiveness...
...perfectly honest with you, it wasn’t pretty offensively with the second unit because to some extent Dartmouth still had its first unit it,” Murphy said. “They did a great job effort-wise...
...Schumer crafted his compromise version of the public plan expressly to appeal to moderates, mainly by including a provision allowing individual states to opt out. His sales pitch is three-pronged. First, he says, studies have shown that government competition is the most effective means of keeping down costs. Second, polls show that most Americans want a public option; conveniently some have even begun surfacing in states like Nevada and Arkansas (Reid and Lincoln are two of the most endangered incumbents) showing surprisingly strong support. And third, Schumer has co-opted the language of state-rights, small-government Republicans...
...Even as it pressed for a runoff, the U.S. seemed to recognize its irrelevance. By many accounts, its insistence on a second vote was intended as leverage to press Karzai into accepting a unity government with Abdullah rather than to actually go through with the poll. But Karzai called Washington's bluff, insisting on a second round he was confident of winning. Meanwhile, Abdullah, claiming that he'd be cheated again and probably recognizing that he was never likely to win even a clean election against Karzai, made clear his intention to boycott the runoff early on. The runoff...