Word: slating
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Following the cancellation of last weekend’s games, a full slate of college football was played this week. Every league squad played its season opener, while four teams began their Ivy schedules...
Besides his eagerness to pound the pavement, Murphy has timing on his side. He is running on the slate of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), the local activist liberal party, in the same season that both four-term CCA veteran Councillor Kathleen L. Born and one-term CCA Councillor Jim Braude announced that they wouldn’t seek reelection...
Even here at The Harvard Crimson, the sports writers were getting pumped for the week ahead. Football was scheduled for its season opener against Holy Cross. Mens soccer had some key home games. The up-and-coming womens volleyball squad had a weekend slate of potentially exciting matchups...
...unfortunates left behind to mind the store are left with scant new material to fill their daily or weekly slate. Print leans heavily on "evergreen" profiles, loosely pegged features, and shoe-leather research pieces like the New York Times' barrage of census stories. One of those landed so high on the page last week that Scott Shuger, longtime author of Slate's Today's Papers, dubbed it "an August news drought classsic." Television, meanwhile, scours the arid landscape for naturally sprouting (and hopefully telegenic) phenomena like the heat, sharks, or Al Gore's beard. On a good day, says Washington...
...quadrennial review of Pentagon strategy and budgets before its Sept. 30 deadline, Rumsfeld is widely assumed to be losing the fight. The signs are grim: For a week, the New York Times and the Washington Post have peppered their front pages with stories on Rumsfeld?s fading luster; Slate suggests starting a "Rumsfeld Death Watch," predicting his exit as DoD chief by February...