Word: nearest
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With 82 percent of precincts reporting, Capuano had a commanding lead, with 81 percent of the vote. His nearest challenger, Republican J. Phillip Hyde, had 12 percent. Two other candidates, Andrea Morell of the Socialist Workers Party, and Anthony Schinella, an independent, split the remaining 7 percent...
Saturday, Big Green punter Wayne Schlobohm took a snap in Dartmouth territory off one hop but could not get off a kick and carried left. The ball inexplicably popped out, Garo Yepremian style, with the nearest defender several yards away...
Never mind that Wall Street is wobbly, that Asia's gamblers are currency shocked or that most Americans are already no more than a tank of gas away from the nearest blackjack table. Las Vegas is on a $7 billion building jag, with 18 major hotel and casino projects scheduled to open before 2000. By the millennium, Vegas will have more rooms than New York City, Paris or Los Angeles and more slots than the U.S. Postal Service...
...than cellular phone cases. Imagine a world where the size of your caliber meant more than the size of your bonus. Inside Manchester, New Hampshire's Wolf Firearms, it is not so hard. Located on a barren street sandwiched between enormous factory outlet stores, Wolf's range is the nearest shooting range to Boston open to the general, non-gun-owning public...
...nearest relation, though, is architecture. Through a gap in the wall, you can walk into each of Serra's Torqued Ellipses and contemplate its interior space. Serra got the idea from a Baroque church in Rome: Francesco Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, whose plan is a quatrefoil stretched to a near ellipse. Standing in it, Serra wondered, "What if I turn this form on itself?" But the closest architectural sibling of these new sculptures is the work of Serra's friend Frank Gehry, the designer of the spectacular Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain, with its freely twisted...