Word: closed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Beatlemaniac and being that close to The Fifth Beatle was exceptional," Adams said...
...Myth 2 The essay counts only in close calls...
...football and guitar as his only extracurriculars, Comeback Kid would normally have missed Bowdoin's first cut of applications. But in his essay he wrote of how he'd spent those first two years of high school: "slowly poisoning myself in a pool of malted hops." Then a close relative who was an alcoholic died of a stroke. After that, he cut out the beer, got A-pluses in his senior year and won a national writing award. He also won a unanimous thumbs-up for admission...
...such close calls can just as easily swing the other way. Bowdoin's committee was ambivalent about one applicant until it read a last-minute addition to his file, a note saying, "Bowdoin College is at the top of my list." He was admitted...
...show is Stabenow's, in TV spots that define her as a spendthrift, turn-back-the-clock liberal. One offered her smiling at the center of a clock. As the hands turned backward, a list of her liberal "achievements" scrolled across the screen. All the same, Stabenow stayed close in the polls until August, when Abraham went after her attempt to identify herself as the champion of elderly voters unhappy with prescription-drug costs. Stabenow - who has twice bused seniors across the border to Canada, where they could buy cheaper medicines - has been promoting the Democratic plan's Medicare drug...