Word: semi
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...already a huge fan of The Daily Show, and I thought, Okay, this is about as strange as it's going to get in my life. I had a good time, Jon Stewart and I got along, and they ended up asking me to do comedy on a semi-regular basis. So then I thought, Okay, this is as strange as it's going to get. The book had been doing okay, but it was taking its time finding an audience, as a highly esoteric book of fake trivia might. But it turns out that people really watch television. Apparently...
...final-500 push by the Dutch. The US boat finished in a time of 6:05.34 to the Netherlands’ 6:07.22.2004 grads and brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss reached the final of the men’s pair for the US, placing sixth overall, after a tense semi-final in which they moved up from fifth to second position in the last 500, fully earning their spot in the last race with a time of 6:36.65.“In the semi-finals we started well. We still hadn’t dropped that much...
...Classic. Nor does it conjure up nostalgic images of fathers and sons huddled around the TV on a cold October evening, wrapping America's favorite pastime in a warm embrace. But while the World Series receives most of baseball's post-season adoration, it's often the sport's semi-finals - the League Championship Series (LCS) - that deliver the most heart-pounding drama...
...time of 8%-plus growth, the government is also mulling a Right to Education Bill, which would make the right to primary education legally enforceable in a court of law. But child rights activists say the legislation in its present form will only produce a class of semi-literate, semi-educated people and perpetuate social inequity...
...described them as a “senseless destruction in the U.S. financial system” and a well-known executive exclaimed on the pages of The Financial Times that “Greenspan’s sins return to haunt us.” Finger-pointing, whining and semi-fake expressions of compassion with homeowners are all mixed in print and the airwaves with serious analysis. A surefire recipe for confusion has thus emerged. Although many seem to enjoy suggesting that the present state is disastrous or worse, certainly not all have jumped on the bandwagon...