The Fosbury Flop is a high jump technique named after Dick Fosbury in the 1968 Olympics where most people were using a scissor technique or a straddle technique to get a high jump.
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Dick Armey, in any event retiring from Congress, is fundamentally a libertarian.
With the exception of a handful of dead-enders, as Dick Cheney said in another context, there is a broad consensus in the U.S. that the tax code should be progressive.
In Indiana, the Republican faithful contrived to put a safe seat at risk by tossing out the incumbent of 36 years, Dick Lugar, in favour of Richard Mourdock, a tea-party hero.
Wells Fargo Chairman Dick Kovacevich said in a prepared statement that the merger "provides superior value" compared with the FDIC-brokered deal whereby only the banking operations of the company would be acquired by Citigroup.
"I told the American people I was going to pick somebody who could be president of the United States and I found that man in Dick Cheney, " Bush told about 3, 000 gathered under a light drizzle.
In fact, Llewellyn became the first Welsh-born jockey to win the race since Dick Francis was successful in partnership with Crudwell back in 1956.
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However, just three months later, shares in JJB tumbled after Dick's Sporting Goods said it had in effect written off its entire investment.
The teenager left her home port of Den Osse in the Netherlands on 4 August, accompanied by her father Dick Dekker, and arrived in Portugal ten days later.
This odd way of looking at the world appears commonplace in both parties: Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney killed a hundred weapons programs in the midst of a recession, and the Obama Administration did much the same thing at the height of the more recent downturn.
Vice President Dick Cheney will campaign in Florida and Pennsylvania Wednesday before he picks up where the president left off, meeting with community leaders in the Badger State.
Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick, who is in charge of counter-terrorism at the Metropolitan Police, told Parliament she thought only a credible report of "concurrent attacks" would justify using the enhanced powers.
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This sort of thing is much better accomplished in novels (alternative histories such as Philip K. Dick's "The Man in the High Castle") or movies ("mockumentaries" like "This Is Spinal Tap").
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Bush's designee found himself Thursday in the rarified air of a Senate controlled by Democrats, who realized the Senate majority only Wednesday and stand to lose it January 20 when Bush and Vice President-elect Dick Cheney are sworn in to their offices.
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"If this happens again, we'll be in much more trouble, " said Dick Ottis, the president of the Rice Belt Warehouse in El Campo, Texas, which stores and dries rice.
Among other achievements, he was the one who convinced author Philip K. Dick to option the novel in the first place.
In "Tender Is the Night" (1934), the novel's two leading characters, Nicole and Dick, court each other in a Swiss sanitarium by playing American records.
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Essentially, she had hit a glass cliff: Dick Fuld had brought her in as CFO at a time when it was too late to save the firm.
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Dick Cheney may take satisfaction in the degree to which the Obama administration has continued its predecessor's antiterror policies, but that doesn't mean he's not a critic.
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London School of Economics scholar Dick Hobbs, who grew in a hardscabble section of east London, traces yobism in large part to the decline of blue-collar opportunities throughout Britain.
Other Democrats musing on their chances include Dick Gephardt, minority leader in the House of Representatives, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts and the Reverend Jesse Jackson, perennial standard-bearer for America's minorities.
Just what those errors are is a bit unclear, though former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh took particular offense in his portion of the report claims by Freeh that Paterno did not have empathy for the safety of children.
In the 1950s young Chouinard, an army vet and former private dick for Howard Hughes, tired of suburban life in Burbank, Calif. and literally took to the hills.
Then Dick Lamm entered the race, in a manner of speaking, and started talking about the long-term effects of unchecked entitlement programs.
Joining Dick and Dom and Michaela Strachan in the presenter category are Blue Peter's Matt Baker and Holly Willoughby from ITV1's Ministry of Mayhem .
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Vice President Dick Cheney has been especially effective in this role, often playing the "bad cop" when President Bush has chosen a softer, more sympathetic tone.
Last night, Vice President Dick Cheney told a conservative group in Washington what he thinks of those who question whether the White House manipulated prewar intelligence.
The Clinton administration is solicitous of union views, not least because Dick Gephardt, the Democratic leader in the House, uses any anti-union move to boost his presidential prospects at the expense of the vice-president's.
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