Word: sprung
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...result, Gmail “invites” have become a precious commodity at Harvard and beyond. Websites organizing the trading of Gmail invites have sprung up in droves, although Wong pointed out that the increasing number of accounts also makes having an account increasingly less exceptional...
...North Dakota you can just show up. Generally, Republicans take the more restrictive view, Democrats the more inclusive one. Reason: poor voters, who tend to vote Democratic, move more often than wealthier ones and are thus less apt to know their appropriate precinct. Lawsuits over provisional ballots have already sprung up in five states. In Michigan, a federal judge ruled for the more inclusive interpretation. The Florida Supreme Court took the narrower home-precinct position, as did a federal appeals court in Ohio. Missouri tried to split the difference. The court ruled that ballots cast in the wrong precinct...
...improve upon the algorithms used to produce them and, more importantly, because they can piggyback off a much larger network designed to carry a huge variety of traffic that is, in some cases, much more demanding—consider, for example, that one huge and very lucrative industry has sprung up entirely around the demand (in a particular demographic) for live on-demand streaming video, which requires orders of magnitude more bandwidth than telephony...
...expectations. He may have won simply by not losing a second time. "He was alive, and he brought his fight," says a senior G.O.P. official. "Conservatives are thrilled--and they were not thrilled 10 days ago, believe me." This time the famously tight Bush team, which had sprung some major leaks in Coral Gables, Fla., had its talking points down: the President "shattered Kerry's credibility" by whacking him with his liberal Senate record, while Kerry looked arrogant and aloof. At one point, when the camera caught Kerry leaning back, his head rolling back with his body, Bush-Cheney communications...
...measure of the desperation of Karzai's supporters that a pro-Taliban tribal chieftain, Naim Kochi, was released two weeks ago from American custody in Guantnamo Bay, Cuba, where he had been held for having truck with renegade anti-U.S. commander Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Kochi was sprung because he could deliver more than 55,000 votes from his Ahmedzai tribe, according to an influential tribesman involved in the negotiations. But after his two years in Gitmo, the gray-bearded elder may choose not to help Karzai. Revenge, after all, is an Afghan specialty...