Word: upstart
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This year the state legislator, who represents eastern portions of Somerville and Cambridge and also sits on the Cambridge City Council, faces a challenge from upstart Green Party candidate Paul Lachelier...
...upstart Tigers—cloaked in orange and black and riding their longest winning streak since 1997—expected to pounce on a Harvard offense riddled by injury and weakened with uncertainty...
...through a $3.7 billion, 1,070-km pipeline - Africa's biggest-ever infrastructure project - that transverses Cameroon. The island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe, which sits on perhaps 4 billion barrels of crude, is also attracting foreign oilmen. These upstart countries join such established giants as Nigeria, which plans to increase its output from its current 1.9 million barrels per day to more than 3 million; Angola, which wants to double its almost 1 million daily output; and Gabon, which is encouraging more deepwater exploration to prop up declining production. All the action makes...
With my beloved Yankees shown an early exit from the playoffs by the clutch play of the upstart Angels, I sat down to write a eulogy...
...marketing and uncertain demand, the mobile Internet's fundamental problem has been that the tiny phone screen is a lousy way to absorb information from the Net. Stop me if you've heard this one before, but that may be about to change. Opera, the tiny Norwegian upstart whose PC browser has in the last 18 months lured some 12 million customers away from products like Microsoft's Internet Explorer, is about to release a new browser that - they swear! - will revolutionize Web surfing on small screen phones. The latest version of its mobile browser, which will be announced this...