Word: bags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like a battle-scarred prizefighter on the ropes in the title match, Harvard's endowment is struggling. Long the envy of higher education for its size--at nearly $5.5 billion, it is the heaviest of the heavyweights--the fund and its managers have more recently become a punching bag for critics after years of lackluster returns...
Injuries and fatigue attacked Harvard right at the heart of its season, and when Locker the magician stuck his hand into his bag of tricks, he found that it just wasn't deep enough...
Injuries and fatigue attacked Harvard right at the heart of its season, and when Locker the magician stuck his hand into his bag of tricks, he found that it just wasn't deep enough...
...showed what was going on. Reed made the mistake of bragging in a few interviews about what became known as "stealth tactics," talking up the political benefits of guerrilla methods. "You don't know it's over," he once said of unsuspecting opponents, "until you're in a body bag." That inflammatory language made its way into data bases, to be recycled frequently...
...softened up the Congressman by reminding him of a fund raiser Gore had for him in 1988. Oftimes when congressional leaders call the Oval Office, Clinton uses the speakerphone and puts Gore on. In a walk-up to the first budget vote, Gore spent only five minutes to bag a Southern Senator that no one else had been able to move. The President joked that Gore was the person who, after others had tried, always managed...