Word: mid-point
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...first race the three boats were even until the collision (about halfway into the course); however, the second time through a half-length of open water separated the Effman from the leaders by the mid-point...
...office, and most of them won. Otherwise, funds were supplied in abundance by the political action committees (PACS) that have proliferated under the campaign finance law. Formed by business, labor and a host of other special interest groups, PACs had contributed more than $60 million at the mid-point of the campaign, as compared with spending a total of $23 million in the last presidential election. There were some signs of a backlash against the growing influence of the PACs. Wisconsin Governor-elect Dreyfus singled them out for special obloquy in his rambunctious quasipopulist campaign against the special interests...
Monet moved to Giverny at the mid-point of his life, in 1883; seven years later he was able to buy the house and start acquiring parcels of land along the junction of the Ru and the Epte, two tributaries of the nearby Seine. By 1926, when Monet-old, nearly blind, and as close to being a national hero as any French artist has ever been in his own lifetime-eventually died, the garden had become one of the most complete environmental expressions of a man's taste ever to be constructed. Monet created his own motif in order...
...that of the sun burn their fuel in a profligate manner and die young; a star ten times as massive as the sun, for example, burns 1,000 times faster and survives only 100 million years. The sun, which is some 5 billion years old, is only at the mid-point in life. Smaller stars, on the other hand, are the Methuselahs of the celestial community. A star with one-tenth the mass of the sun can burn for a trillion years...
...Distinguished," said House Majority Leader Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill of the 94th Congress that reached mid-point last week. "Futile," declared House Minority Leader John Rhodes, judging the same performance...