Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact that Simpson can't get a story straight isn't the heart of the matter. What's interesting is whether O.J. would have protected Guerrero, already charged with cocaine conspiracy and accused of supplying the money for his nephew to purchase 15 kilos of coke, had he thrown a pigskin instead of swinging...
...kind of sad that they had to come into that situation when [Fordham] was already throwing the ball a lot," Alford said. "[Fordham was] already into the groove, and they kind of just got thrown into the fire...
...Then, Monday morning, a surprising blow came at the hands of a New York Republican power broker. Staten Island borough president Guy Molinari, who months earlier had thrown his weight behind the Texas governor, announced he would head up the New York campaign of Bush's chief GOP opponent, Arizona senator John McCain. Molinari has had close connections to Bush, having run his father's 1992 New York presidential campaign. Molinari was cryptic about the sudden switch, saying Bush did nothing to dissuade him but that McCain "is best able to continue the legacy of leadership of George Bush...
...said her process will be useful in building highly sensitive optical switches--switches that can be thrown by a single photon...
...Killing the competition with kindness is more like it. For Bezos has long realized what Wall Street seems to have just awakened to: you can't stick around on the profit margins of a bookstore, or even a book-CD-video-toys-electronic store with the odd auction thrown in (which last year had sales of $1 billion and zero earnings as usual). To stay ahead of the curve, Amazon needs to build the ultimate e-commerce portal: the holy grail; the must-have home page for all online shoppers. And for that you need a shopping agent...