Word: wind
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Justice's return made a normally safe gamble a loser. Later, senior Mike Giampaolo missed a 37-yarder with the wind at his back. After senior end Mike Sands sacked Brown quarterback James Perry on third-and-8, the officials called senior end Brian Howard for a borderline late-hit personal foul that extended the drive by another minute...
...victory. His strategy is to send a flood of loyalist candidates to the election board, so that even if political stars like Nouri are barred, a solid number will survive the vetting process and get elected. Some analysts are predicting that the regime's heavy-handed tactics could wind up mobilizing the sort of strong voter turnout that propelled Khatami to his unexpected victory in 1997. "There could be a backlash," says Tehran University professor Nasser Hadian. "The conservatives are making Khatami and his supporters look like underdogs...
...Jenny Craig), but they get the approval of dietitians for free. Weight Watchers assigns points for each type of food, so people can sneak some fatty, sugar-filled food into their point allotment. But the program rewards eating vegetables, and especially fiber. "When you have a fad diet, you wind up trading one obsession for another," says Linda Webb Carilli, the company's general manager of corporate affairs. "High-protein diets are not good for women because they leach calcium...
...with berserk telephone calls ("Let the angry caller rant for a minute or two") to how to fire an employee ("Get straight to the point when the person sits down in your office"). The Posts even offer guidelines for office gossip, which the authors believe is inevitable ("You could wind up covered in mud if you dish dirt about the wrong person"). The Posts also deal with private problems, like what you should do if a co-worker has bad breath or smelly feet. Their bottom line: etiquette is a fancy name for good behavior in the workplace...
...timer: Easily identifiable by his practice of wearing striped crew socks all the way up to his knees. He looks as though he can breathe only with the assistance of an iron lung, but you are the one sucking wind as his spindly legs and reconstructed hip propel him past you faster than he can drive...