Word: throwing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attended would admit it had taken place, much less where. The scene inside the conference room just off Pennsylvania Avenue was potentially so contentious that the Secret Service officers needed their own kind of bodyguard. They came flanked by Justice Department lawyers, whose mission was to throw themselves in front of any question that could pierce the Secret Service's impulse for protection. Again and again, Ken Starr's prosecutors fired questions they have been asking in similar sessions for weeks: What exactly can Secret Service officers see from their posts in the West Wing? When did Monica Lewinsky visit...
...Houston Astros last week. (Perhaps he ought not go home to Texas this off-season.) Of course, Clemens did it twice, 10 years apart, but this was only the fifth game of Wood's major league career. "It was just one of those days when everything you throw is crossing the plate," Wood said. "It just felt like I was playing catch." If he can keep this up, the Cubs may even be able to end their 90-year championship drought. Yeah, sure...
Each stage takes money--to pay for the drugs, to pay the salaries of researchers and support staff--and while more money might speed things along, drug companies and universities don't always know in advance which medications will reach the market and therefore which ones to throw more money...
...reason this whole issue is so contentious is that there are legitimate concerns on both sides," said Nagel. "The key is to navigate a course that doesn't throw the baby out with the bathwater...
...this point, they've just decided to throw caution to the wind," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Tim McGirk of India's attempt to elbow its way into the nuclear club. "They're saying, 'Enough of this shilly-shallying around -- we've done the test, and we're going to build up our arsenal...