Word: fielding
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...After the ceremony, fellow recipient and former Senator George McGovern said Galbraith has made the field of economics more understandable...
...football. However, The Game is the annual outburst of school spirit on campus. When it's between us and our rivals down south, we're suddenly free to paint our faces, dress in crimson and scream for our school. However, when we all trot down to Soldier's Field, we're in for a disappointment. We are the mighty Harvard Crimson, and, as a color, we have no clear mascot. So, being traditionalists, our school has adopted the head of our founder, John Harvard, as our school mascot...
...months Bush put so much emphasis on finding "someone who likes me" that he sounded like Sally Field. He's found that someone. Now the country must decide if it likes the two of them as much as they like each other...
...could prove difficult to exploit politically. For one thing, Cheney has won high marks for his stewardship at Dallas-based Halliburton, transforming it into the world's largest provider of oil-field services. He arrived in 1995 and boosted the fortunes of a company beset by low oil prices and slow growth, raising revenues to $15 billion. Cheney's high-level contacts in Washington and around the world helped bring in business. Under Cheney, the company's Brown & Root construction subsidiary has worked hand in hand with the Democratic Administration--as it had done before him with the Bush White...
Cady is one of the leading lights in a brightening field known as astro- or exobiology--the study of how life could form elsewhere in the universe. In 1994 she made her first trip to Yellowstone to study the springs. Cady knew she might find heat-loving microbes in the scalding water, but she had no reason to think she would find remains of their deceased kin. When she looked at rock samples under a microscope, however, she discovered that they bore the fossilized imprints of bacterial sheets that gave silica a place to cling as the rocks were forming...