Word: split
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Crimson (17-8, 7-3 CWPA) split its four games at UMass, losing to St. Francis and defeating Fordham, 13-7, and Connecticut College, 11-0, on Saturday, and falling 12-7 to Queens College on Sunday...
...billion years ago, before the Flintstones split off from jellyfish, that nature first found the crucial hormone that regulates life-span and metabolism from worms...
...previous generation was defined by the saying "Don't trust anyone over 30," ours can be summed up by the motto "Pretend that you are already over 30." People, we're in our early 20s and we already buy into the status quo and dream of owning a split-level home with a two-car garage--no wonder we're unhappy...
...defines "vote power" as the probability that your vote will break a tie and directly cause one candidate to be elected over another. Ridiculous as this definition may seem, when you watch the election returns in November you will realize that unless the popular vote in your state is split right down the middle with one vote more to the candidate you voted for, your vote has done nothing but impotently increment the one's digit in your chosen candidate's column. So the better a voting system, the greater probability of a deadlock broken by your vote, making your...
...product of a broken home, I can vouch for the thesis that the harm done by divorce is long lasting. My parents split up when I was six years old. At age 51, I have still not come to terms with it, and I doubt I ever will. It should not be taken for granted, however, that all children of divorce end up divorced themselves. Growing up, I vowed to provide my own children with something I was myself denied--a stable home in which both biological parents are present. Of my life's proudest accomplishments, I rank...