Word: slotting
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...types (Peter Krause and Rachel Griffiths) but for its two real standouts, Michael C. Hall and Frances Conroy; the two of them take the kind of repressed characters that creator Alan Ball made into cartoons in "American Beauty" and give them surprise and whimsy and nuance. A supporting-actor slot went to another master of complex repression, "Alias'" Victor Garber, who as Jennifer Garner's enigmatic spy dad communicates more emotion in one tensed frown than Martin Sheen in an entire season of Oval Office curtain-chewing...
...tennis, Richard Williams has been saying that they were destined to dominate the sport. Williams p?re's optimism was finally justified when Venus and Serena made it to No. 1 and 2 in the world rankings after contesting the French Open final. Serena's win and Venus' runner-up slot gave them the points to head the list. It could be a long time before anyone dislodges them. Since little sister Serena - she is 15 months younger and 12 cm shorter than Venus - won the U.S. Open in 1999, the sibling rivals' world domination has been gaining pace...
...began in 1996 as a comic strip in Japan (over $2 billion in Yu-Gi-Oh!-related products have sold there). In the U.S., it rolled out last fall as a Saturday-morning 'toon on Kids' WB!, where it soon ranked No. 1 in its time slot. In March the multimedia merchandising was launched: out came video games for Sony PlayStation and Nintendo Game Boy and action figures from Mattel. Also, beginning in that same month, came the trading cards--dribbled out just slowly enough to create scarcity. Interest, however, is anything but scarce: the Yu-Gi-Oh! website logs...
Patterson moved into the No. 1 slot to compensate for the loss, but the absence of Karlen—who had entered the season ranked No. 6 in the nation—was a major blow to a team that lost four of its top seven players to graduation last year...
...meter run. Co-captain Carrie McGraw placed second in the 400 and helped the 4x400 relay team to a second-place finish. That was all the Crimson could muster on the track, but it was just enough to propel the team to the runners-up slot...