Word: spectacularness
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...past six years, campaign finance crusades waged by McCain have been spectacular, neon failures. But last week he may have found the key to success. Senator Thad Cochran, the Mississippi conservative, joined McCain's crusade on Thursday, bringing to 10 the number of Republicans who support the reform bill. If all 50 Senate Democrats back it, McCain will have the 60 votes needed to close down the filibuster his GOP colleagues would launch to kill it. Bagging Cochran "shook the earth" for GOP senators, says Nebraska Republican senator Chuck Hagel, who has written his own campaign finance legislation...
Such a misstep with about two minutes remaining in the second period on Saturday created a two-on-none break that resulted in a couple of spectacular saves by Jonas, before a rebound by Jesse Heerema eluded...
Monti tallied a career-high 16 points, 12 of which came in the second half. She was back to hitting the spectacular shots that had marked her career before this season...
Beyond that, their equal billing at last summer's announcement belied the fact that Venter's version of the genome was more complete than Collins'. Venter's contribution, asserts Victor McKusick, the Johns Hopkins researcher who is considered the grandfather of medical genetics, was "spectacular...
...ideas to avoid being left behind. "It was," admits Watson, "the correct way to go." Thanks to Venter's maverick ways, says Phillip Sharp, director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "we have the human genome four years early, and it's spectacular. Craig is to be applauded for doing this...