Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Still, by the time the medals had been handed out, and the Chinese filed in for a post-victory press conference, the mood was more controlled. Each of the athletes predictably dedicated their gold medal to their coach. A couple branched out and thanked their country for their chance to attend the Games. None mentioned their families, perhaps unsurprising, since most gymnasts leave home for a state sports school by age six or seven...
Microsoft's carefully crafted appeal of the federal antitrust case decided against the company earlier this year resembled nothing so much as a post-game press conference in the aftermath of a particularly hard-fought sports contest where the underdog has, miraculously, come...
...last week's press release by Mathematica called the validity of the study into doubt, questioning Peterson's use of data. The release prompted Kate Zernicke's article, "New Doubt is Cast on Study that Backs Voucher Effects," in Friday's Times...
...were when the machinery of rock-starmaking was perfected. The poet-satyrs onstage and the poet-flacks of the rock press fed off one another voraciously. The artists preened; the authors postured--all to make the cover of Rolling Stone...
Talk about a holiday in hell. As thousands of troops, planes and helicopters press their assault for a third day on Islamic fundamentalist rebels on the troubled Philippines island of Jolo, 24-year-old American Jeffrey Schilling may be wondering - if he's still alive - how he found his way into this nightmare. Held captive by an army led by one of his wife's relatives, who has threatened to cut off Schilling's head unless the U.S. government releases one of the most dangerous terrorists in its prison system, he now also has to contend with the fact that...