Word: sporting
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...Ford had it coming. Six days before, the company's suave president and CEO Jac Nasser had sailed into the National Press Club in Washington, announcing to reporters, "We're doing things very differently at Ford Motor Company these days." Voluntarily, the company would improve the fuel economy of sport-utility vehicles 25% over five years, he said, saving an average of 1,700 gals. of gas over the life of an average vehicle. "We welcome other automakers to join...
...resume at Andover and Yale, even as he played on all the same fields his father had, he played by different rules and in a very different climate. He didn't have the talent to be the baseball-team captain, so he became commissioner of stickball, a rebel sport that upended Andover's jock culture and gave everyone a chance, however hopeless their natural gifts. He tried at first to impress his teachers, combing through the thesaurus for a synonym for tears to use in an English essay he was writing about his sister's death. But his account...
...Their sport yields no meat, no trophies, just pride in one's marksmanship and that freeze-frame moment of annihilation. "Varmint vapor" it's called by hunters. "Montana mist." "Dakota droplets." Apparently unconcerned about p.r. or the tender feelings of nonhunters, varminters have a taste for sick humor and grisly imagery. The 54,000-member V.H.A. sells T shirts that feature cartoons of exploding rodents. Its headquarters in Pierre is lined with snapshots of happy hunters and their diminutive kills. There are images of coyotes, badgers, gophers, and one large close-up of a prairie-dog carcass tumbling through...
Swimming is a solo sport. Sure, there are relay teams, but the glory is in personal triumph, as in the indelible image of all those gold medals dangling from Mark Spitz's neck...
...Philippine troops have captured the headquarters of the __ Islamic Liberation Front 2. Pit-__ (heartbeat sound) 3. Nosey Parker 4. Cedar Rapids college 5. Turntable part 6. South African President Thabo __, whose policies on 55-Across have been widely criticized 7. Brown foe 8. Sports hero quoted by Bradley in his endorsement of Gore 9. Bush p.r. man Fleischer 10. __ Sport, whose high-tech swimsuits have been banned in the Olympic trials 11. Lap dog, for short 15. Harry Potter and the __ of Fire 19. Words preceding "tear" or "roll" 21. 1748's Treaty of __-la-Chapelle 22. Serving...