Word: swing
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...just as many world championships. At the stadium, his promoters have arranged for the Filipino to make official his plan to fight Puerto Rico's Miguel Cotto for a seventh title, the welterweight, which has a maximum limit of 147 lb. (67 kg). That is a 40-lb. swing up from the 106 lb. Pacquiao weighed at the start of his career. (See pictures of the rise of Manny Pacquiao...
McDonnell will be the state's first Republican governor in eight years after his decisive win. (Republicans swept all three statewide offices.) Once a GOP stronghold, Virginia emerged as a swing state after backing Obama last year. But unlike in 2008, independents favored the Republican, who sidelined social issues to run as a pragmatist...
Despite this pathetic record, fears of voter fraud have served to justify restrictive laws and tactics that end up disqualifying eligible voters. Six swing states, using flawed and possibly illegal criteria, purged “tens of thousands” of eligible voters from their rolls in the run-up to the 2008 election. Some states passed laws to restrict voter registration drives; the threat of some prankster signing up as “Mickey Mouse” is just that terrifying! And others require extensive photo identification from in-person voters, which serves not to reduce fraud (in-person...
...funk band I played in. I said, "Man, I don't know if I want to play in this loud, all-night band." And he said, "Man, play in the band. You'll have a good time." (Watch TIME's video "The March of TIME: Birth of Swing...
...think anyone had ever lived through that big a swing in consumption, from double-digit growth to double-digit declines, in such a rapid period of time," says Stephen Sadove, chairman and chief executive of Saks...