Word: shoo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...field, and perhaps even more significant, league play is a good bet to be unpredictable. Defending champ Penn is a shoo-in for top honors and defending cellar dwellar Columbia is a shoo-in for the bottom, but nothing else is certain...
...type of student who used to be a shoo-inis no longer guaranteed of anything," says Taylor,the Leverett tutor...
...Bears their second-straight Hockey East title. Sparking the victory, of course, was freshman sensation Paul Kariya, who is featured in this week's Sports Illustrated (the one with all the scantily clad women). The report likens the small and speedy Kariya to Wayne Gretzky and calls him a shoo-in for the Hobey Baker award...
Take Mikhail from St. Petersburg. A 42-year-old mathematician who taught in a high-level university for 18 years, he has been forced for the past year to sing for pennies on Jerusalem's pedestrian mall. Store-keepers shoo him away, passersby laugh at him. He cannot stand the shame of making a fool of himself before fellow Jews...
...scrutiny from the press, opponents and voters to slow down his surge, at least for a bit. The impeding effect is greatest on candidates about whom the public and press know little, since negative revelations can easily shatter their tenuous popularity. The latest example: Clinton, who was declared a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination before the New Hampshire primary but then was staggered by bombshells about his alleged extramarital affairs, draft status and experiment with marijuana...