Word: jockeying
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...Tony Blair submitted to his weekly inquisition by MPs in the House of Commons on Wednesday, his opponents sought to highlight splits opening within Labour ranks as its pols jockey for position in anticipation of the Prime Minister's looming departure. But it was a deeper gulf that yawned as Blair used the occasion to shift Britain's Iraq strategy, announcing a planned reduction in troop levels by 1,500 over the coming months from some 7,100 at present, with the aim of pushing overall numbers below 5,000 by the end of the year. Answering unspoken accusations that...
...Friday evening. Harvard had just dropped a 5-1 decision to the Bulldogs, and as fans filed out of Ingalls Rink, Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91 could only keep returning to the word “disappointing.” As league playoffs approach and teams jockey for positions, Harvard had a golden opportunity to solidify its chances for first-round home-ice advantage with a win over Yale, which had gone 1-8 and been outscored 35-20 in its last nine games. And though Jimmy Fraser gave the Crimson...
...This wasn't a case of, say, a blue-blooded Barbaro coming to a poignant end at the apex of his career. Silent Witness inspired loyalty and fervor partly because he was a global champion. He repeatedly trounced many of the world's best speedsters. For the Hong Kong Jockey Club, internationally renowned for its wealth and incomparable facilities but not, till recently, the quality of its thoroughbreds, Silent Witness showed the Club packed horsepower too. Though racing has played a central role in Hong Kong's social and economic life since the British first colonized the barren rock...
...nibble at it from your hand. His running style was as straightforward as his personality: bound out of the barrier, cruise to the lead or park just off it, gallop relentlessly to the line. "He had the reflexes of a springbok," says South African Felix Coetzee, the only jockey to have ridden Silent Witness in a race. "The moment you gave him the signal to go, he jumped...
...Eleven different players tallied points and all three goalies on the roster saw action as the squad tried to round back into shape following a period of relative inactivity in January. Now just two weekends remain on the conference schedule for the Crimson to jockey for prime postseason seeding. Harvard meets No. 9 Boston College in Chestnut Hill in the opening round of the Beanpot Tournament at 8 p.m. tomorrow.“They beat us last year in the Beanpot,” Sifers said of BC. “So right now it’s payback. It?...