Word: stuck
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...recession, athletic shoes have not taken as hard a hit. In fact, after the $17.5 billion U.S. athletic footwear market saw flat sales in '08, sneakers are actually up 6% so far this year, according to SportsOneSource, a research firm. Further, while the overall golf business is stuck in the rough - U.S. equipment sales, for example, have dropped 9% this year - spikes have sold relatively well. In the United States, the $500 million golf shoe market was actually up 3% in 2008, and it has risen 1% this year...
...barrage of shots from Harvard’s drivers, the Crimson went on a 4-0 run and took a 5-3 advantage. Although Santa Cruz tied the game, Harvard pulled away thanks to six saves from McCarthy in net and six goals from Kennifer.“We stuck it to the Banana Slugs pretty deeply,” Farrar said.In addition to Kennifer’s tallies, the Crimson saw two goals apiece from Zdrojewski and freshman Ita Barton-Kettleborough. Purcell and Abbott also had a hand in the action, each putting one shot in the back...
...theaters by giving them an experience that couldn't be duplicated in the living room. It didn't work: the number of tickets sold dropped from an all-time high of 4 billion in 1946 to about a billion a decade later. And though the wide-screen process stuck, 3-D disappeared within a few years; many films shot in the process were released in "flat" versions...
...second floor of what was once a school in east Mosul, an Iraqi Army medic stuck his chin out a hallway window and shaved over the courtyard. On either side of him in the dingy hallway light, detainees sat facing the wall, blankets cast over their heads. The Iraqi Army had brought them in on a tip from a man they caught with bomb making materials, and a U.S. Army platoon had just arrived. As the medic flicked his razor and turned his small mirror, the American soldiers stood the detainees up one by one, scanned their retinas, took their...
...loudly. “He loves using StickyNotes on his Mac,” I heard Singer say to a study-buddy in a hushed tone, “once, I was looking for a song on his computer and just happened to see a whole bunch of them stuck to the desktop of his computer.” “I mean, that’s not that weird,” I heard in response, “I use them all the time to remind myself to finish my homework and stuff...