Word: sparking
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Summers said he meant for his remarks to spark academic debate, noting that “there are deep and profound questions regarding the underrepresentation of women in science...
Sacred Heart started chipping away at the lead out of the halftime break, pulling to within 11 just over two minutes into the period. But Harvard responded once again, as Cusworth hit the Crimson’s next three baskets to spark a 15-3 run that gave the squad a 23-point lead—its largest of the night?...
Hopkins said she mentioned the Summers speech in an e-mail exchange relating to another matter with Boston Globe reporter Marcella Bombardieri on Friday—but that she did not intend for her sentiments to spark the media circus that is already underway. Following a Globe article this morning, the story has appeared across the national media, and Hopkins said she has already received a request to appear on ABC’s “Good Morning America” as well as several other television shows...
Sacred Heart started chipping away at the lead out of the halftime break, pulling to within 11 just over two minutes into the period. But Harvard responded once again, as Cusworth hit the Crimson’s next three baskets to spark a 15-3 run that gave the squad a 23-point lead—its largest of the night?...
...General Motors says a Chinese firm knocked off an entire vehicle--and Americans could soon start buying its cars. A unit of GM last month filed a lawsuit in Shanghai accusing Chery Automobile Co., the Chinese automaker, of filching production-line blueprints for a compact car, the Chevrolet Spark, which GM says cost "hundreds of millions of dollars" to develop. Chery's car, called the QQ, does indeed look like an identical twin to the Spark and comes in candy colors designed for Chinese women drivers. The main difference is QQ's $3,600 sticker price, a third less than...