Word: stamina
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...women, Ekaterina Karsten from Belarus has the first bow number out of the 30 women in the event. Karsten was the Olympic champion in the single scull in both the 1996 and 2000 games. Karsten showed off her stamina in this year’s World Championships where she won bronze medals in both the single and double sculls competitions, events in which both finals took place within an hour and a half of each other. Massachusetts is well represented in this event—Carol Skricki of Norwood, Mass., and Cindy Bishop of Boston, Mass., follow Karsten...
...appearances can be deceptive, as U.S. troops may one day discover. A people of immense charm and courtesy, Afghans are fiercely independent, and they are fighters of astonishing stamina and resolve. The United Front soldiers could be valuable allies to U.S. forces, but even with their help, Americans would probably find the Taliban a dangerous enemy...
...place among the hourly-wage jobs listed on the SEO website. Of course, sperm donation pays pretty well too. At $70 a shot with up to eight visits per month, a hard worker can earn upwards of $5,000 within a year—if he has the stamina to keep it up for that long...
...profit. Many countries, with Britain among the foremost despite its long dog-breeding tradition, are only slowly addressing the accumulated health problems that may leave animals crippled, blind or deaf. Dogs were once bred for protection, hunting and herding. The favored traits were those evolved through natural selection: stamina, agility, intelligence and speed. But the Victorians' emphasis on appearance rather than performance changed all that. Over the decades, changing fashions encouraged exaggerated, distorted features such as massive heads, squashed muzzles, hairless bodies and highly folded skin - all traits that can diminish the quality of an animal's life, cause serious...
...more than 50% likely to have heart murmurs by the age of five DALMATIANS: Inherited hearing defects may be linked to their white pigmentation, and yet dogs with small black spots, not big splotches, and lots of white fur are favored by breeders BULLDOGS: Once symbols of British stamina, the animals often have problems with breathing, even walking SHAR-PEIS: Adults lose many of their wrinkles, but these endearing pooches are prone to congenital skin infections and eye problems caused by the eyelid rolling in on the cornea GERMAN SHEPHERDS: Hip dysplasia, which can bring on crippling arthritis, causes problems...