Word: pooling
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...momentum, female pugilists have yet to win the hearts of some boxing "purists" like Sugar. HBO will not air women's boxing, partly because of its paucity of A-list fighters. "It's natural for a young sport," says CNN/SI boxing analyst Steve Farhood. "But the thin talent pool prohibits consistent, well-matched bouts." More to the point, says Vitiello, "promoters still see women as a sideshow. There is talent out there. But to get air time, you have to be a Playboy bunny or have a famous name...
...compatible wireless network at home. Your desktop PC is connected to the Internet via a cable modem, and you have a wireless connection from your PC to a laptop. You can move around with your laptop from room to room, even take it out to the backyard swimming pool, and still connect wirelessly to your network, as well as to the great Net beyond. Your connection between the laptop and PC is fast, about 11 Mbps, the same speed as the Ethernet networks businesses use to interconnect their computers, by wires, at work. That's fast enough...
...Election committees today struggle to attract a politically correct pool of candidates. Minturn insists, “there are plenty of people who are eager to enjoy a great meal and good conversation.” The difficulty, though, lies in diversifying their membership. “There just are not too many takers,” says one club member, who asked not to be named, “but it’s understandable. If you were black, you wouldn’t want to stick out like a sore thumb. My instinct is that the Somerset would...
...Somerset was too posh and the Union too dull, they decided, and the Tavern filled a certain demand in the Boston social landscape. The Tavern has always recruited members with an inclination toward the arts, especially the performing arts, in order to replenish the talent pool for the yearly amateur theatrical production. The Tavern produces an unparalleled spirit of loyalty amongst its members...
...doomed species disappear immediately. Most first suffer loss of their ranges and gene pool to dangerously low levels, eventually descending to join what biologists call the "living dead." Throughout the world, 976 tree species, for example, are classified as critically endangered. Two are down to three or four surviving individuals and three others to only one. I have been grimly compiling what I call the Hundred Heartbeat Club of animal species--those consisting of a hundred or fewer individuals, hence that number of heartbeats away from total extinction. The club's more familiar members include the Javan rhinoceros, Philippine eagle...