Word: unspectacularly
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...like a scene from a bad Washington movie. Squads of investigators are prowling the halls of Justice and the FBI, interrogating officials high and low about a recent spate of unauthorized, though unspectacular, Justice-beat leaks. Some Justice officials defend the plumbing expeditions as necessary to stem revelations of classified and investigative information. Others deride the internal probes as a panicky overreaction by mid-level officials who are making key decisions while the department's top management jobs (Deputy AG, Associate AG and Assistant AG for the criminal division) lie vacant...
...poverty, the welfare-state and government regulation. Not surprisingly, the objectivist was extremely well prepared and composed. He was ready to answer the "questions" of the audience, which formulated one straw-man after another for Binswanger to knock down. By evening's end, the debate had reached an unspectacular draw...
...with the Bulls than with Michael himself. The color concept was red and black, like the Bulls' colors and maybe a simple "23" adorned the shoe, I can't recall. Again, the shoes represented the team more than the player. But Michael was a spectacular player on a decidedly unspectacular team. This forced Nike to be more creative in its marketing...
...everything from a spaceship to a machine that would extract oil from shale. According to the Dexter Leader of April 24, 1975, Koernke won several science-fair prizes, one for a "communications antenna" that "is now being sold to nasa." Despite grades that several of his teachers recall as unspectacular, the article stated that the federal space agency had awarded him a scholarship to the University of Michigan in nearby Ann Arbor. "Mark's main interest and ambition is to become an aerospace engineer with NASA," it reported...
Things did not get too much better over the next five games. Harvard beat a pair of unspectacular teams--Springfield and Cornell--before bowing to B.U., 4-2, and Penn, 5-2. Both of the losses were close games until the closing minutes, when the Crimson's opponents broke out with bunches of goals...