Word: spectacularness
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...minute web documentary, featured on the home page of Obama's website, highlights McCain's involvement in attempts to rescue the California-based Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, chaired by political donor Charles Keating, jr, during the spectacular collapse of the U.S. savings and loan industry in the 1980s and early 1990s...
...golf team swung its way to a promising start, holding third place after one round at the MacDonald Cup this weekend. But the grind of 54 holes and soggy skies took their toll on the team, which settled for sixth place. “It was alright, nothing really spectacular,” junior Danny Mayer said. “We played pretty well the first round, and we kind of didn’t play well the last two rounds. Overall, it wasn’t that great of a performance.” Ivy rival Yale played host...
...relationship drama with no spectacular special effects or A-list stars, Fireproof has succeeded by speaking to an audience that has often eluded studios - devout Christians. The subject - saving a marriage - is universal, but the film's themes are decidedly theological...
...images into a nonpartisan spectacle of light and sound,” which was not at all appealing to my scarred psyche.Little did I know what I was in for. The evening was helmed by the Boston A/V DJ trio Sosolimited, whose original software transformed the debate into a spectacular of technical punditry. Using the audio, video, and, most importantly, closed captioning feeds provided by CNN, the three guys were able to track and count the candidates’ buzzwords, analyze their body language, and isolate their argumentative technique. The event was a nerd smorgasbord, as satisfying to the tech...
...bill passed the House 263 to 171 - with 91 Republicans and 172 Dems voting yes - a larger margin than expected, considering the bill's spectacular failure, 228 to 205, on Monday that caused the largest one-day drop, 778 points, in the Dow Jones industrial average. Very soon after passage, President Bush signed the bill into law, finally giving Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson the authority that he requested more than two weeks ago to buy up Wall Street's distressed mortgage-backed securities. But getting it done was not pretty or easy, and the clearest sign of that...