Word: barreled
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Given Sears' strong legs and barrel chest, it's hard to imagine, but at that time, he says, he thought he was "washed up physically." So it was pretty much on a lark (and to fill up all those landlocked hours) that he drove to Mexico in a little pop-up cabover camper, with his old 9 ft. 6 in. long board strapped to the shell because, why not? "What a wonderful physical experience!" an exuberant Sears says of his time that first winter on a little-known beach in southern Baja. "You know, it all came back...
...kind of situation you practice in your driveway as a kid. Up two, 4.4 seconds left, hit both and it’s ballgame. Miss one or two and you’re possibly staring down the barrel of another chapter in what has recently become one of the most painful sagas in all of Harvard athletics...
...extending its reach, Dillon suggests it's all about the name; SBC would be "crazy" if it dropped the AT&T brand from international services, he says. SBC, meanwhile, hasn't ruled out keeping it. Now that's showing respect for your elders. - By Adam Smith Profits By The Barrel Royal Dutch/Shell announced a 2004 profit of $18.5 billion, the highest ever for a British-listed company. That followed similarly upbeat earnings from ChevronTexaco and ExxonMobil, although in all three cases company stock barely moved on the day earnings were released; in Shell's case, its announcement also disclosed...
...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers dispatched to Winthrop House in response to reports of a barrel fire, to which Cambridge Fire Department responded also. The caller extinguished the fire before the officers arrived on the scene. The property sustained damages to a window and an entryway door...
...late December, the Russian government shut out rival bidders for Yukos' core oil division, the million-barrel-a-day Yuganskneftegaz. Then state oil firm Rosneft snapped it up, using a shell company, for a bargain $9.4 billion. That drew catcalls even from Vladimir Putin's own economic adviser, Andrei Illarionov. Managers from Rosneft turned up on New Year's Eve at Yuganskneftegaz's Siberian HQ to claim the keys. Meanwhile, in Houston, Deutsche Bank is challenging the temporary bankruptcy protection won earlier by Yukos lawyers hoping to stave off the sale. The bank argues that Texas law has no place...