The defeat prevented the Vikings (11-4), whaveave lost three of four, from locking up a first-round bye in the playoffs.
Growing Old Gracefully John Stockton turns 40 on Tuesday, and the Team That Time Forgot is weeks away from locking up another playoff berth.
There are three college football experts, however, who find little fault with how the Miami Hurricanes have found themselves 10-0 and one game from locking up a berth in the title game on Jan . 3in the Rose Bowl.
Urged to move quickly to prevent Mr. Florio from locking up the nomination, Mr. Corzine raced to hire a staff, hastily agreeing to extraordinarily high salaries; one adviser received a $40,000-a-month 40,000-a-month
Advisers to Mr. Corzine said Mr. Lautenberg's endorsement would mark a new phase in the campaign, from locking up the endorsements of Democratic officials and the support of county organizations to beginning to mobilize the party's electorate.
American officials, including a former drug tsar, have publicly worried about having a "narco state" as their neighbour.The failure of the drug war has led a few of its braver generals, especially from Europe and Latin America, to suggest shifting the focus from locking up people to public health and "harm reduction" (such as encouraging addicts to use clean needles).
But in this year of the wavering voter, Missouri keeps both sides feeling nervous one moment, hopeful the next, with Democrats thinking the state's 11 electoral votes remain up for grabs and Republicans worrying that things are far from locked up.
It's possible he knows how to shut out the critics, but the last thing his players need this week are headlines questioning their ability to hold up their end of the region's Jets-Giants Super Bowl plans with the regular season only entering its fourth quarter, a division far from locked up and a wild-card scramble they may yet be in.
During the great wave of incarceration — generally thought to have begun around 1980, and cresting about three decades later — state prisons added something like a million inmates, with about "half that growth coming from locking up more people convicted of violence," Pfaff calculates.
Some of the officials who spoke with Mr. Percoco said the discussions seemed to be aimed chiefly at keeping Ms. Kennedy from locking up the appointment quickly, at a time when she appeared to be emerging as the overwhelming favorite for the seat.
ABS detects when a driver has used the brakes too violently and prevents the wheels from locking up, and traction control can stop the wheels from spinning uselessly when the driver accelerates in slippery conditions.
