The heavy training schedule insisted upon by their coach, John Buchanan, so that their training could be tapered towards the World Cup, looked dubious and will be judged in the Caribbean.
Protests against the World Cup have tapered off since Thursday, when police used stun grenades and tear gas against up to 600 masked protesters who were ripping up street signs and otherwise committing vandalism as they tried to reach Sao Paulo's Corinthians stadium on the tournament's opening day.
By winning gold, and in turn taking that title off me, Becky will automatically qualify for next year's World Championships, so she doesn't need to worry about tapering for World Cups to get qualifying points.
Fifty-three hips (40 patients who had a mean age of 20 years) underwent a total hip arthroplasty using a cementless, proximally hydroxyapatite-coated, tapered, femoral stem and a cementless acetabular cup.
The container, which is tapered to fit in a car's cup holder, contains seasoned potato wedges and a choice of chicken for less than $3.
Small animals will stick their heads inside all sorts of discarded food containers to consume scraps of food, but classic Yoplait yogurt cups -- the kind that have a tapered shape and foil lid -- pose a special risk.
Bean pot and loving cup shapes, with a bulging middle and a tapered mouth, are ornamental but not practical, since they make repotting difficult.
Fruit: mature year 2; nut 1, 20--35 mm, ovoid to +- spheric, partly enclosed by cup-like involucre (cup), remnants of perianth and style persistent as small point at tip; cup (1.5 2--3 1.5 2--3 1.5 2--3haped, scmles slendiam +- tapered, reflexed to spreading.
Spread a scant 1/4 cup of the masa into a 4-inch square, leaving a 1 1/2-inch border at pointy tapered end of the husk and a roughly 3/4-inch border on the other sides.
In all patients, a matte, tapered stainless steel stem (MS30; Sulzer, Winterthur, Switzerland) with a modular 28-mm head was combined with a low-profile cup.
At the Admiral's Cup regatta in England last summer, Coutts's team showed up with an unconventional mast shape -- chubby at the base and tapered at the top.
