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...Next: The winner visits Oakland next week, unless the Browns upset the Steelers, in which case the destination is Tennessee...
...election foreshadowed the presidential vote of 2000. The race between Spitzer and the incumbent, Dennis Vacco, was so tight that it took six weeks before Spitzer was finally declared the winner, by about 25,000 votes. (In a memorable dissent, Vacco claimed that "dead people" and illegal immigrants had voted for Spitzer, a charge immortalized in the tabloid headline ALIENS STOLE MY ELECTION.) The new attorney general began looking for cases that mattered. Using an obscure section of the federal Clean Air Act, he took on polluters in the Midwest in 1999, arguing that winds bring their acid rain...
...biggest winner so far appears to be Autonomy, which recently won a contract initially worth about $3 million to provide the software for information collection, analysis and routing for the 22 agencies that fall under the new Department of Homeland Security (DHS). But few other contracts have been signed thus far, as the feds slog through the swampy process of budgeting, appropriating and procuring. "We've all been waiting for the wheelbarrows of money to show up," says Leonard Pomata, president of the government division of webMethods, based in Fairfax, Va. "Aside from the emergency funding that has been spent...
...translation: the eating's good there). Italians are famously proud of their own neighborhood cuisine, but they're as eager to taste what's cooking down the road. And if you force an Italian to choose just one city where the local cuisine is better than the rest, the winner - always after careful thought - more often than not turns out to be Bologna. The traditional Bolognese menu of egg-based pasta, thick sauces and magical twists with the locally cured prosciutto and parmesan cheese leaves visitors supremely satisfied - if a bit more stuffed than after a Neapolitan seafood dinner. Bologna...
...Houston Astros at my 21st birthday party, with Brad Ausmus jumping out of the cake. And while we’re on the subject, why not let Brad work his catching magic with some quality pitching besides Wade Miller and future Cy Young winner Roy Oswalt? Though he just resigned for another year, the Shaner’s back is iffy, so it can’t hurt to pick up another veteran...