Word: blowingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...occur in fours. First, the company issued a recall on its new high-end laptop after two of them burst into flames at Apple offices. Then Apple reported that its quarterly earnings would be significantly below expectations, largely because the company could not produce computers fast enough. The third blow was Wall Street's swift reaction, which sent Apple shares plummeting by 15% of their value in two days. The fourth thing...
...audience erupted into whistles, cheers and catcalls, Joshua Oppenheimer '96-'97 rose from his seat in the center of the auditorium. Oppenheimer, who wore a black mini-dress with boa trim, a broad-rimmed hat and cats-eye rhinestone sunglasses, began to blow a whistle and shout above the pandemonium...
First the good news: in laying out the House regulations to his "Sisters and Brothers of the Winthrop Nation," Senior Tutor Gregory Mobley struck a blow against age discrimination, setting the House drinking age to a modest...
...sharpest blow to multinationals came in the state of Maharashtra, where right-wing politicians on Aug. 3 canceled the largest overseas investment ever made in India-a $2.8 billion electric-power plant that Enron Corp. of Houston was building near Bombay. Enron, which broke ground in March and stands to lose $300 million if it abandons the venture, is seeking talks aimed at permitting work to resume. "This is typically Indian," says Barton Biggs, chairman of Morgan Stanley Asset Management, which runs an Indian mutual fund. "For every three steps forward, they take two steps back...
...game dragged on, I became bored. Sometimes I would be doodling in my notebook, or yawning, or counting how many of Rudenstine's hairs were out of place, and then a whistle would blow and some Harvard player would be dancing around happily...