Word: tip-off
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...roles to a foregone conclusion. Several of the top 15 advisers who sat down with Clinton in the White House Cabinet Room for a supposedly decisive session Wednesday suspected the President had already made up his mind to sign the welfare-reform bill Congress was about to pass. A tip-off: Hillary Rodham Clinton was conveniently out of town at the Olympics in Atlanta and, White House watchers believe, already knew what her husband would do. If the First Lady had been in any real doubt about what her husband would do, Clinton watchers reasoned, Williams would have...
...experience of having played in a game like last year's--even though it was a loss--fortified the Big Green's character. Dartmouth's players knew what to expect coming into last night, and they confidently took control from the opening tip...
Gary Richards, who covers the transportation beat for the San Jose Mercury News, recently discovered just how this works. He got a tip-off from the message boards of America Online about state changes in rules governing the use of car-pool lanes. He quickly fired off an E-mail message to a government official to pin down the facts, and the resulting story made the front page (as well as the top of the Merc's online news service on AOL). Then Richards went back online to field more than a dozen messages from readers, including one that prompted...
...spare time, he worked on a musical encyclopedia which included biographies of famous (and not quite so famous) musicians throughout history. In order to ensure that competing publications did not rip off their work, my teacher and his colleagues would include one false biography to serve as a potential tip...
...hockey team battles ECAC rival Cornell tonight at Bright Hockey Center. Face-off is at 7 p.m. The women's basketball team plays Columbia at Briggs Cage. The tip-off is scheduled...