Word: tacks
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Throw in quarterback Joe Murt from Colorado—the 24th-best high school prospect coming out of that state. Add 270-pound nose guard Matt Drazba from California—a stellar high school wrestler as well as menace at the line of scrimmage. Tack on Massachusetts All-State defensive end David Paine...
...Louis, Mo., multinational demanded last year that Maine suspend its official Quality seal, which is granted only to milk from uninjected cows. When the state refused, Monsanto took another tack, suing one of Maine's leading dairies in federal court in Boston. The suit charged that Oakhurst Dairy, the company that buys Nutting's milk, is misleading consumers by advertising a no-artificial-hormone pledge, implying that its milk is safer and healthier. "Milk is milk," says Janice Armstrong, Monsanto's director of public affairs...
Chopra said that although he had not yet received a formal invitation for student participation, he welcomed the new tack...
...sells an array of knits plastered with festive graphics. Among the bounteous array of holiday garb available is the “snowy keyhole sweater,” a confusing mixture of wholesome Christmas-related imagery (snowflakes adorn the front) and typically Victoria’s Secret-style tack (the keyhole neckline) and also the “Christmas tree sweater,” a more classic example of the only-wear-this-once-a-year nature of the holiday sweater purchase. Either way, it’s an ill-advised fashion choice...
...Yada] and Jason [Norman],” Beal said. “But you know, as a player and as a man, you really want to be out there and be able to do the best that you can to help out the team. And to make tick-tack fouls and put myself in a position where I’m not an option for coach to use, that’s really not what I need to do. I need to work on getting out of foul trouble...