Word: vigor
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...frustratingly vocal opponent.Clayton and Omodele-Lucien each finished their matches with 10-point supertiebreakers after splitting their first two sets. Omodele-Lucien—who looked to be out of contention down after losing the first set 6-3—sprang back to life with fist-pumping vigor, winning the second set 6-4 and then taking the supertiebreaker, 10-8. Clayton, after winning the first set 6-4, seemed ready to win the match, up a break at 4-3 in the second, but was broken back and eventually lost...
...teamed veterans with rookies in the neediest hotspots for the past four years, it's hard to get around the policies that took shape under former mayor and presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani. Even the most minor of crimes - jaywalking, urinating in an alley, turnstile jumping - were pursued with vigor under the notion that cutting out the everyday "quality-of-life crimes" would help reduce the majors, such as murder, rape, robbery and assault...
...trigger a biochemical cascade, causing inflammation of blood vessels and immediate, detrimental changes to the nervous system, according to the paper, published this week in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. And just one healthy meal helps return your body to its optimal state. "Your health and vigor, at a very basic level, are as good as your last meal," says lead author James O'Keefe, head of preventive cardiology at the Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City...
...have a situation in which a majority of the states that authorize the death penalty seldom if ever use it. Last year only 10 states carried out an execution. And even that number overstates the vigor of the system. If you don't count executions of inmates who voluntarily dropped their appeals and asked to be killed--essentially government-assisted suicides--the state count falls to eight...
...Eliot House known as “Pinkie,” prepared for her rise as a political trailblazer. As turbulence rocks her home country after her assassination on Thursday, Dec. 27, classmates remember Bhutto as a student driven by her love for Pakistan and set apart by the vigor of her convictions...