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...point, Nastase served with a lacrosse stick. Engel returned the ball, and Nastase quickly picked up his racket and served an ace...
Harvard's Vince Marin stepped up to the occasion by booming a spike at the feet of a Dartmouth player, giving Harvard a 14-11 lead. Then the sophomore outside hitter served up an ace...
Figuring the odds and bidding shrewdly are crucial skills for such high rollers as billionaire investor Warren Buffett and Bear Stearns chairman Alan ("Ace") Greenberg. That makes them all the more formidable at a favorite pastime of theirs: bridge. After the stock market closes, they bring their talents to high-powered card games at New York City's exclusive Regency Club. Their frequent opponents include CBS chairman Laurence Tisch and centillionaire publisher Malcolm Forbes...
Behind the stern talk, antiapartheid leaders conceded they were searching for compromises that could get them to the conference table. De Klerk has kept the final ace, the release of Mandela, in his hand, and when he plays it, the antiapartheid movement will feel heavy pressure to sit down and talk. The question then will be whether any solution acceptable to both the black majority and the white minority is negotiable...
...recommend learning to speak, read and comprehend this esoteric language. On one hand, your actual resume may improve as your vocabulary soars. And even if your resume gets worse, you will ace the verbal portion of the GRE's, go to grad school and not have to worry about employment in the real world for dozens of years...