Word: took
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...just trying to get something going on offense in the first half and I took some bad shots," Hill said. "In the second half I played a little better offensively but it was just too little, too late...
...until last summer, when she took a job at the Harvard Law School, that Janowski was able to devote significant time to improving her game...
...claimed that it would radically alter the balance of the browser wars because Netscape would suddenly have preferential access to AOL's immense subscriber base. But Justice prosecutor David Boies has countered that the merger was a last resort for Netscape -- a direct consequence of the beating it took because of Microsoft's underhanded grab for market share. And regardless of the new world order, the image of one of the world's most brilliant businessmen pretending not to understand the simplest questions about his own company will be hard to dispel. A new playing field doesn't mean...
Iranian authorities have arrested several suspects in the recent killings of five prominent writers and intellectuals. While the arrests were significant, the fact that the murders took place at all invoked worldwide condemnation of Iran. The killings, which occurred during the past few weeks, spread panic among Iranian dissidents and concern among human rights activists because they were interpreted as a declaration of war by the old revolutionary guard...
...Until the murders took place," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell, "intellectuals had been considered off limits." Whatever contemporary Iran may be, it is still a nation that reveres literature and poetry, and the people who write it. "The perception of going after intellectuals fueled public indignation -- moderates appear to have led the counterattack with the arrests of suspects," says Dowell. The real question, though, is whether these bloody tit-for-tats between Iranian factions will eventually tear the country apart...