Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...usually wins because Branson can do the mundane spectacularly well and because he has an almost unerring ability to connect with consumers, particularly younger ones. Those business instincts are matched by an ability to motivate people who work for him. And who wouldn't want to--Branson seems hell-bent on making sure that everybody, but everybody, is having as much...
...Hillary Clinton," was how G.O.P. Senator Alfonse D'Amato responded to reports of his dealings with Stratton Oakmont Inc., a New York brokerage that has drawn ongoing scrutiny for alleged securities violations. But then last week a Securities and Exchange Commission report concluded that the brokerage had bent its own rules to secure D'Amato shares in a hot new computer stock in 1993 that netted him a $37,125 profit in a single day. New shares are often doled out by brokerages to favored customers before the rest of the public gets a chance. That makes comparisons...
...changes on the council this year are not unique to student government, says Albert. The council's progressive bent is part of a general trend on campus, he says...
...pragmatic bent of our society strives to place a value on knowledge, to demand that theory come to the service of praxis. But Harvard's liberal arts curriculum denies this point of view, arguing that the value of an education does not lie solely in the practical skills one takes away from...
...this? Why now? Starr's conflicts have long been known: at the time of his appointment, he represented the very company, International Paper, that helped cause the removal of the first special counsel because it had sold land to the Whitewater Development Corp.; he has ties to groups bent on defeating Clinton; and on the eve of his appointment, he was considering filing an amicus brief in support of Paula Jones' right to sue the President...