Word: streaking
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...teams continued to trade haymakers throughout the first frame, keeping the score tight through the early stages of the contest. A drop shot gave Harvard a 10-9 lead, but the Huskies regained a 14-12 advantage using well-placed kills. Neither team could build an effective streak, however, and the Crimson climbed back to tie it at 14-14.At 14-16, Kocurek’s efforts to recover a near-lost point translated into a devastating kill from sophomore Sandra Lynne Fryhofer. However, Harvard could not capitalize on the momentum from Kocurek’s play, dropping the next five...
...Mexico native, I know most Western voters are not the types conjured up to stymie reform. Many cowboys have a libertarian streak, but above all they are pragmatic. They have no time for winded speeches and empty pandering, which is mostly what they’re getting. Grassley and Enzi do nothing to challenge the fake grassroots spectacle, and in doing so they push away consensus...
...country wrangled over the behavior of police officers in the wake of the Henry Louis Gates arrest last month, some scientists were pulling out their hair over racial profiling of a different kind: that perpetrated by medical researchers. Experts within the research community say a small but stubborn streak of racial profiling has long persisted in the medical literature, borne out in studies that attribute health disparities between blacks and whites not to socioeconomics or access to health care alone but also to genetic differences between the races - a concept that implies that a biological category of race exists...
...this bad, why, then, does every Vegasite I meet still talk as if he or she is about to go on a winning streak? The people in Vegas aren't nearly as depressed as those in far less devastated cities. "This is a town built on hopes and dreams, and people don't give up hopes and dreams when there's a recession," says Neal Smatresk, executive vice president and provost at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. Anyone who has ever stood at a craps table knows that losers always believe they're one roll of the dice...
...Wall Street wondering one thing: What got the usually mild-mannered Geithner so incensed? Establishing a new regulatory framework for the financial markets is not the kind of politically charged, life-or-death issue that should drive a normally discreet Cabinet member to go on a blue streak in front of dozens of officials. But Geithner and the Obama Administration have more at stake in getting reform pushed through Congress by the end of the year than it may seem...