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The problems of binding a 3800-page book are formidable, but it can be done, and I believe that OUP customers would have been better served by being offered a one-volume edition (perhaps with a needed lectern of its own), enabling the NSOED to compete more readily with the other main contenders among large dictionaries, the MWIII and the Random House Unabridged .
All contenders show the requisite deference toward Anabolis, the goddess of steroids.
4, 2000, issue, the National Enquirer has a story about a woman who claims to have had an 18-month affair with one of the leading contenders.
Many small-market teams (Oakland, Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Montreal, Seattle) and expansion teams have cobbled together contenders in the '90s to do battle with the dynastic clubs from the big markets.
All the papers bury their coverage of the New Hampshire debate among contenders for the Republican presidential nomination.