Word: bowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...figure out what had happened, officials speculated that the 7,951-ton ferry, which was built in 1980, struck the Zeebrugge harbor wall or a sandbar as it made its way out of the port. But surviving passengers did not report feeling any sudden impact. Whatever happened, the bow doors of the cavernous vehicle deck, which was holding 88 cars and 36 trucks, suddenly swung open. The car deck flooded, causing the vessel to tip over. Peter Ford, managing director at Townsend Thoresen, the British company that owns the Herald of Free Enterprise, acknowledged that "somehow the doors burst open...
...Flynn is not just another upper class mayor," Di Cara said. "He doesn't wear bow ties, he doesn't court reporters, he doesn't associate only with the famous folk...
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Harvard's other co-captain, Ingrid Boyum, had to bow out of the competition because of a sprained ankle after winning her first two rounds in five games each over Susan Reed and Diane Staley, a 1985 Harvard graduate...
...known as downsizing, rationalizing, streamlining and, perhaps most commonly, restructuring. With a bow to the diet culture, some prefer to call it just plain slimming down. By whatever name it goes, a compulsion is sweeping through corporate America to bring about fundamental, long-lasting changes in the way it does business. U.S. corporations have always undergone periodic cutbacks in times of recession or strain, but this time the tone and scope of the effort are vastly different. Says Keith Stock, a partner in the Manhattan-based McKinsey & Co. management consulting firm: "What we're seeing is nothing less than...