Word: toughness
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...That's a tough one. Ken Jennings wound up winning 74 times. I'm not sure we're going to see that kind of success ever again. He was with us for 4˝ months. My gosh, I was spending more time with Ken Jennings than I was with my wife...
...think mentally it will prepare me better for tough games,” Evans said. “I know I’ll have to go out and play my hardest because, after an injury like this, you can’t complain about anything else...
...bizarre story of “The Arctic Sea” and an unannounced, clandestine trip by an Israeli head of state to Moscow. Simply put, Israel has proven itself unafraid to take direct, dramatic action to keep Iran in check. If Israel will not hesitate in playing tough with a country as powerful and potentially belligerent as Russia, the West cannot assume it will hesitate to use a similar “shoot first, ask questions later” policy in the future...
...certainly does not guarantee victory. Just ask sophomore Holly Cao and freshman Hideko Tachibana, who competed in a Crimson-clad final in the Flight A women’s tennis championship at the William and Mary Invitational over the weekend. After a string of tough matches against a variety of highly-ranked opponents, the athletes faced one another for the title. Tachibana emerged as the victor, defeating Cao, 6-7, 6-4, 6-3.However, this was ultimately a team victory for Harvard. Cao and Tachibana showed that they could fill the shoes of graduates Beier Ko and Laura Peterzan...
...even if comity rules, there are plenty of hurdles preventing Shelby, Dodd and the Treasury from coming together on a consensus bill. Dodd, facing a tough re-election battle in Connecticut, needs to please his base with a left-leaning bill, while staffers say Shelby has issues with the shape of the bill so far. The Senator doesn't like the Administration's proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency, though he's willing to support enhanced protections of some sort. But he is firmly against an Administration proposal to let the Federal Reserve designate which financial institutions qualify as most important...