Word: secondment
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...incident and allowed the goal to stand despite howls of protest from the Irish players. After the game, Henry admitted that he had touched the ball, but in a manner implying it was accidental - an assertion that compounded the sin because replays showed he actually touched it twice, the second time with a certainty that suggested it was deliberate. "I cannot speak, I am so angry," fumed Ireland's Italian coach, Giovanni Trapattoni, after the game. "All the European people saw we deserved to win or at least get to penalties. All I ask is for fair play," he said...
...under UC rules, first-place votes for Long and Johnson were then transferred to the second-listed candidate on each ballot...
...team, Harvard shot nearly 50 percent from the field and almost 60 percent in the second half alone...
...highest pub, are filled with breathless gawking at the cityscape below. A pair of huge 150-ton dampers - weights that absorb the motion of a swaying building - eliminate sloshing in the world's loftiest pool. The world's fastest elevators must ascend at the rate of 10 meters a second in order to make journey times tolerable. Such is life at the world's tallest hotel - or the tallest for now, at any rate...
...victory that was being celebrated was not from a war as much as a single battle: the home leg of the national soccer team's double header against Algeria, whose outcome will determine which country makes it to next year's World Cup in South Africa. Egypt's second goal, in the dying minutes of the game, had given the home team a 2-0 victory that put it neck and neck with its fiercest rival; the winner of Wednesday's rematch, to be played in neutral Sudan, will go on to South Africa. (See pictures: "Johannesburg Prepares for Soccer...