Word: xl
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...training, I turned to former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Bill Cowher, who won Super Bowl XL. Cowher explained that every great speech has to present players with a challenge, a plan to meet that challenge and an incentive for meeting that challenge. Then he retold the most effective speech he ever gave to a team. "When Christopher Columbus left and got on the boat, everyone told him not to go because the world is flat and he's going to fall off the face of the earth," began Cowher. I realized then that there is probably a good deal of history...
...fisherman or an astrologer, a moon-phase mechanism is a novelty, and it's a top trend this year. Among the new models to get wound up about are Breguet's classically elegant minute repeater, IWC's sporty Grande Complication and Cartier's chic Tortue XL Day and Night...
Breguet Classique Grande Complication ($284,500) IWC Grande Complication ($195,000) Cartier Tortue XL Day and Night...
...Consider the line up: local bank and Newcastle United sponsor Northern Rock had to be nationalized in February after it was caught short of cash when the money markets seized; on Sep. 12, Britain's third largest tour operator XL went bust leaving London club West Ham United without a shirt sponsor; and now insurance giant AIG, shirt sponsor at English and European club champions Manchester United, is teetering on the brink of collapse...
...because Samuels rejects a structure that would flatten out the ridges in the absurdity of American reality, he often meanders and digresses; some essays don’t seem to fit in the book’s overarching theme at all. While reading the essay about Super Bowl XL in Detroit, I was not at all sure how describing Stevie Wonder as a “playful, gigantic black baby who has absorbed all terrestrial sounds and language in a single gulp” or Aretha Franklin as a “300-pound mountain of congealed hurt?...