Word: stretch
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...growth. The Beeb ballooned in the 1990s, adding staff and diversifying its operations and output. In came the rolling news service BBC News 24, along with a commercial arm, BBC Worldwide. In the drive for ratings, nobody stopped to ask if the corporation could sustain such growth or stretch itself in so many directions...
...Friar’s Club Roast: Hire celebrity impersonators to roast you and your friends in your common room. $100 doesn’t stretch too far, so instead of a Dane Cook impersonator, you might have to actually put up with Dane Cook...
...we’re not satisfied with one.”Delaney-Smith, however, was encouraged by the squad’s victory, especially because Harvard went winless in its first six games of last season and was just 2-11 during the non-conference stretch.“We’re very happy. This feels funny. We didn’t do this last year,” Delaney-Smith said. “It’s absolutely great—I’m going to go have a lemonade. I’m going...
...result of the fight over party grants, however, the College now has significantly more leverage to challenge UC expenditures. This was not a victory by any stretch of the imagination, although certain self-congratulatory members of the UC would have you believe so. In fact, students’ rights, to the extent that they even exist at a private university, would probably be more extensive today had the UC never engaged the administration at all and simply agreed not to reimburse students for alcohol...
...seat 5 in. farther than usual from the one in front of it, it is 20 in. wide vs. the typical 17 in. Even the aisles are wider: 20 in. vs. 19 in. If these differences seem minuscule, they're not: they gave me enough space to change positions, stretch (I'm 5 ft. 6 in.) and put my book and earphones down next to me on the seat. The seat has a pitch of 37 in., reclines 8 in. and has an adjustable foot and leg rest, useful for sleep...