Word: widens
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...beginning of the second periods, the calls against the Crimson could not have been more perfectly timed for the Bobcats. Just as Harvard was beginning to show signs of life—each time pulling within one goal—the failure to kill the penalty allowed Quinnipiac to widen the lead to two goals.“You need to play with discipline in the playoffs in order to win,” MacDonald said. “I think we took bad decisions...most importantly just taking bad penalties.”The Crimson’s inability...
explained one by one in order to widen...
...Maryland; in Ohio, affluent whites tend to be Republican. In 2006, the state elected its first Democratic governor, Ted Strickland, in a generation. Most polls, at the present time, show Clinton 10 to 20 points ahead in Ohio, and Clinton was in Youngstown Tuesday night to try and widen that gap. "The best words in the world are not enough," she said, "if you don't match them with action...
...went on strike for several weeks, they chanted Zuma's name at rallies. He has the official endorsements of the ANC's powerful Youth League and the party's partners, the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions. He has also been trying to widen his appeal. After meeting local business leaders in September, Zuma told TIME, "If international businesspeople are concerned about the economic stability of a post-2009 South Africa, they would be well advised to speak...
...ever they took root, gaining genuine popular support, they would pose a threat to the stability of democratic South Africa." But Altbeker sees the danger exacerbated by the ANC's own policies of pursuing economic growth without promoting social equality. "A large body of economic thinking suggests that the widening of inequality is one of the inevitable by-products of rapid economic growth in developing countries," he writes. "There is no universal consensus on this, but if inequality really does tend to widen as economies expand, then we had better hope that it is not the principal reason...