Word: ward
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...many as 3 million impoverished children will die this year of malaria, although easy prevention (bed nets to ward off mosquitoes) and treatments (antimalarial drugs) exist to save those children. Tens of millions of Bangladeshi citizens are being poisoned daily by drinking well water that is laden with natural arsenic, yet the rich world has not seen fit to help resolve this long-recognized crisis. And the list goes on. The failure of the U.S. and other countries to respond to such utterly solvable crises results not only in massive unnecessary death but also in a vicious circle of poverty...
...This year, our team is really, really strong,” said senior Molly Ward, who won the 50 and 100 free and currently holds the school record for those two events. “Penn knew coming in that they really didn’t have a chance to win. But they didn’t even make a splash. It was a bit discouraging...
...When we realized that the Penn swimmers weren’t pushing themselves very hard, we had a talk and decided to still push through [to get something productive out of the meet],” Ward said...
...been training very hard,” Ward said. “She has great underwater kicks, which make her a great backstroke swimmer. She had one of her best meets today...
...fair, Lenovo does gain some benefits from its foray abroad. Lenovo's new CEO will be the highly regarded IBM veteran Stephen Ward, who will steer the business from Lenovo's new headquarters in Armonk, New York?a convenient location from which to target the U.S. market. The breadth of Lenovo's product line will improve, too: it will offer clients IBM's upscale laptops, in addition to its own line of cheap desktop computers. And then there's the IBM name. "They are going to ride the coattails of the IBM brand," says Bryan Ma, a Singapore-based analyst...