Word: extras
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Duke converted five of six extra man opportunities and won 38 ground balls to the Crimson's 28. Harvard converted only two of six man-up situations and was outshot by the Blue Devils...
Oddly enough, its counterpart--known affectionately as "Fall back"-- doesn't seem so off-kilter. Why second-guess the power of the government to create an hour out of thin air with the flick of a switch? That's an extra sixty minutes of sleep, partying and flexing those procrastination muscles on a paper which is still due at noon--although suddenly it's only one o'clock in the morning...
...fact, the biggest question we may have asked on those fall Saturday nights is whether or not the Puritans believed in Daylight Saving--that is, are the bars in this town open an extra hour...
...student demographic whose schedule-juggling is already a feat of Herculean proportions? Why does no one think to factor in the additional ten minutes that we lose in our attempts to readjust our watches? Why does it always seem to fall right after spring break, when we need that extra hour of detox more desperately than ever...
Certainly, the bull market has added greatly to Americans' wealth and stimulated extra spending. Greenspan cites long-term studies showing that of every $1 made in the market, 3[cents] to 4[cents] gets spent on restaurants, vacations, curtains and other things in the real economy. Multiplied over trillions of dollars of new market wealth, that translates into billions of dollars in additional consumer spending and a 1%-to-2% boost in the nation's output...