Word: stringing
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...cable guys have refused to meet the NFL's asking price because other than the eight Thursday night games that the NFL Network broadcasts, the rest of the programming is second-string - and that's being kind. They also didn't like the fact that the NFL has so far refused to sell the cable outfits its Sunday Ticket package, available only on satellite, which lets viewers watch any NFL game. Goodell attempted a beautiful end around by offering the Pats-Giants game to Time Warner Cable and Cablevision in return for all parties entering into binding arbitration to resolve...
India is also concerned by China's burgeoning and secretive defense expenditure, its building of road and rail links along the border, and its "string of pearls" strategy of setting up naval bases in the Indian Ocean. But China has its own strategic concerns, particularly the fact that India is being courted by the U.S. in a strategy aimed at forging a regional alliance comprising India, Japan, Australia and the U.S. To that end, last September, India held joint naval exercises in the Bay of Bengal with the U.S., Australia, Japan and Singapore, soon after China's military exercises with...
...gift was in turning the intensely personal into radio gold. The breakout album for singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg was the 1974 Joe Walsh-produced Souvenirs. Its confessional soft-rock hit, Part of the Plan, was the first of a string of emotional, radio-friendly tunes, including Leader of the Band, written for his bandleader father, and Same Old Lang Syne, about a chance meeting with an old girlfriend. By the end of the decade, he was an icon for sensitive souls everywhere. (Comedian Denis Leary joked that his adolescent admiration for Fogelberg hindered his success with girls.) Fogelberg discovered...
...before hitting a jumper with 1:05 to play, making the score 74-68. Northeastern then ran 32 seconds off the shot clock before big center Nkem Ojougboh was fouled by sophomore guard Jeremy Lin on a dunk attempt. Ojougboh missed both free throws—breaking a string of six straight made by the home team—and Lin found McGeary in the corner for a three with 24 seconds left to make it a one-possession game.Northeastern guard Matt Janning hit two free throws with 16 seconds left, but Lin made it a one-possession game again...
...lawyers in the EPA argued that the agency would be unable to defend the move, the Washington Post reported. But it's likely to take half a year or more for the case to make its way through the courts, delaying efforts to control greenhouse gases. Coming after a string of relative victories for the environmental movement - the first federal climate change bill just passed out of committee, and the new energy bill represents the first increase in fuel economy standards in decades - the EPA move is especially disheartening. "It's going to take time, and it does set back...