Word: tossings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ORLEANS: Will the non-retired coach please sit down? Among the NFL coaching legends presiding over the pre-game coin toss stood Mike Ditka. Stately. Dignified. But not done yet. A subtle undercurrent to all the pomp and cheese-en-stance that was Super Bowl XXXI was the story of a career revived. And it wasn't aging funkmaster James Brown's. Ditka confirmed Monday that he will return to the sidelines next season as head coach of the New Orleans Saints. The perennially woeful Saints obviously hope they have landed the Coach Ditka of old, the Ditka...
...investors (and owner of the Portland Trail Blazers), back onto the Microsoft board. "We like to talk about how the fantasies we had as kids actually came true," Gates says. Now, facing their old classroom building at Lakeside is the modern brick Allen/Gates Science Center. (Gates lost the coin toss...
Pollsters, forget your focus groups. consultants, toss away your tracking polls. Campaign managers, abandon your game strategies. I am in unique possession of absolutely foolproof information about the results of the 1996 election. I have access to an infallible campaign crystal ball that has been tried, tested and proved right over and over again. Ladies and gentlemen, meet my father, my own vox pop, Robert B. Stengel, 75, a man who has voted in every presidential election since 1944 and has never once voted for a losing candidate. Not once. Ever...
...fight to succeed retiring G.O.P. moderate Mark Hatfield--a campaign marred by partisan sniping--Bruggere has blasted Gordon Smith's frozen-foods company for allegedly poisoning creeks with factory waste. Politically, the foes' platforms are remarkably similar, and the race is a toss-up. But if Bruggere does win, it will mean a reversal of almost 30 years of G.O.P. Senate control in Oregon...
...Widener. Every so often I get sidetracked, especially if it's in an interesting part of the PS (American literature) or LB (education) sections or if it's late at night in the Widener stacks and I'm tired of carrying books up and down floors. I'll toss down my backpack, sit on the floor in my jeans, and explore the wonders in front...