Word: pooling
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...Greene and his posse were clearly happy at Coogee, getting up late, training, playing pool, chillin'. "Today was Ato's turn to do breakfast," said Greene one day. "He went to McDonald's!" Greene, for all his shoulder rolling and Ali-style prognosticating, is a funny, sweet young man, and very self-aware. Before his race he cracked jokes, cracked his gum, and seemed relaxed - but he always does, and never is. "Do I get nervous?" he said, repeating the question. He looked at me, and smiled. "Of course I get nervous. I don't show...
...lift the prized baseball gold from the Yanquis, but finished in eighth place overall with 29 medals - a remarkable achievement for an impoverished country of 11 million people. Indeed, if each country's medal haul is divided by its population size in millions (which is, after all, its pool of available talent), Cuba comes out the second-place country over all with a remarkable 2.6 ratio. The runaway winners, of course, would be Australia, whose 58 medals divided among 18 million people would give it the winning ratio of 3.2. Tied in third place would be another two former communist...
Under bankruptcy laws, Robins won substantial victories to narrow the pool of eligible claimants and limit its damages. But it was unable to escape the wave of suits, and by the time the pool fund for plaintiffs' settlements closed this April it had paid out nearly $3 billion in reparations to women injured by the shield...
...Saturday, Harvard lost to Princeton in front of a bloodthristy home crowd at DeNunzio Pool...
...strategy similar to the Jones camp's, the honchos at H.S.I. sought to approximate L.A. in Sydney by renting a beach house in Coogee. Sharing it were four H.S.I. sprinters: Greene, Jon Drummond, Curtis Johnson and Ato Boldon. They were clearly happy there, getting up late, training, playing pool, chillin'. Greene cracked jokes, cracked gum, seemed relaxed--but he always does and never is. "Do I get nervous?" he said on Wednesday. "Of course. I don't show it, but I'm nervous right now. This is the biggest stage I've been on, and I want Maurice Greene...