Word: length
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...length of the campaign is a problem," Buhr added. Instead of peaking with the primaries and then a lull before the conventions, it should be a "gradual building of excitement and tension," she said...
...rest of us will be stuck with the fanfare - after being treated to such sparkling pre-match headlines as "Advantage: Williams" and "Sister Act," the face-off will get even more publicity than the undercard: a showdown between curvaceous second-round flameout Anna Kournikova and a full-length mirror...
...Jordan's final game in 1998, where in the closing seconds he stole the ball and sunk the basket that gave his team the NBA title. Others would pick the "perfect game" that Don Larsen pitched for the Yankees in the 1956 World Series. Or Secretariat's amazing 31-length victory in the 1973 Belmont Stakes. What each of these performances has in common is domination--a superb athlete taking on the best of his peers and crushing them. But for my money, no other athlete has dominated his sport in a single outing the way Tiger Woods...
...then there is the pole that runs the length of the train, to the side of your head. It is the bane of your Metro experience. The shorter people have to reach up to hold onto it. You have to strain to avoid knocking yourself out when the train hits a sharp curve...
There are other and newer considerations. For example: Hormonal balance (it did not work in 1984 with Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro...but that was then), and star quality (either party would go to almost any length to get Colin Powell...