Word: bout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been truthful in his sworn accounts to Starr. But it was hard to square that rationale with some of the questions the troopers say Starr's agents were asking, such as whether one woman had borne Clinton's child--and whether the child resembled Clinton. In a bout of Clintonesque damage control, a source close to Starr told TIME that the interview notes "contain no reference" to such questions and that the agents "have no recollection" of asking them...
This fundraising quest was at least partially responsible for Rudenstine's bout with exhaustion in 1994. Rudenstine, a master fundraiser, is reported to have expended Herculean amounts of energy wooing potential big donors and giving them more personal attention than one person--himself included--could endure...
Going into this semifinal match, Harvard and Brown had split their previous two encounters during the season. In Harvard's second tiring five-game bout of the tournament, the Bears avenged their Harvard Invitational loss to the Crimson with a triumphant game record...
...pretax profits from more than 2% a decade ago. That's partly explained by a combination of tax-law changes, today's soaring profits and a shift to product donations in lieu of cash. Still, it's the kind of thing that makes traditional nonprofits sweat. And the latest bout of merger mania makes them even more uncomfortable. When two big companies--each with its own foundation--become one, only one foundation is likely to survive...
...Silverstein as Ken, the anxious lawyer, also shines, particularly during his bout with deafness: his superbly comic expressions render even the old gag of mishearings and misunderstandings a la Cuthbert Calculus extremely funny. Daniel Goor '97 almost steals the second act as the sardonic, tough-talking Officer Welch, but Amblad's Lenny makes a sweeping comeback with the rip-roaring rigmarole that brings the farce to its zany climax...