Word: bummers
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...several chances to reassert its control over the game, knotting the score at 1 and 2, but undermined by its inability to convert on the power play or stay out of the penalty box, ultimately fell short in a 4-2 defeat. “It was a bummer to lose but it will definitely be a learning situation for what we need,” Bassett said.The whistle-heavy affair—St. Lawrence was called for 10 penalties, the Crimson eight—turned in the second period, when Harvard twice erased one-goal deficits...
...size can be a bummer if you already spent $48 buying the poorer-quality version of the first season of 24 And if you decide to repurchase, the new files take twice as long to download. The larger size also means more of a drain on older video-capable iPods. They didn't have terrific battery life for video playback before, and they do slightly worse with the new files...
...included) pair of headphones with built-in microphone. For Version 1.0, a wired headset is probably the most sensible, but you've only got about three feet of movement from the V-Phone itself. Since the V-Phone must plug directly into a PC, it can be a bummer if that PC is hidden under a desk. And the service's sound quality, coming through that headset, could be clearer. It should have come with a microphone (that could combine with computer speakers to make a ready-to-rock speakerphone) or with Bluetooth, so that I could use a convenient...
...cover expenses. Harvard Red Line receives a small amount of money from the Athletics Department and the Undergraduate Council each year, according to Chen.“We don’t get the funding or the access to facilities that varsity sports do, and that can be a bummer. But we are in control of our own destiny,” Marsh says. Ryan John, media and communications director at the Ultimate Player’s Association (UPA), the governing body for Ultimate Frisbee in the United States, says the overall membership in the UPA has grown between...
...remind people that there is this country, now called Myanmar, where a military regime is causing great suffering. People are being tortured, raped and killed. I could have laid out the problem calmly and directly in a nonfiction book, but that would have been what Americans call 'a bummer.' So I chose fiction. And comedy. Sometimes only the subversiveness of comedy can do justice to the extremes of horror." Especially in the hands of a writer who knows the value of life...