Word: brawls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University were to lose its patrollers, it would mean more than spending the night in the hallway outside your locked room. It would mean a sluggish response when a law student is stabbed in the Square. It would mean that the brawl earlier this month in Eliot and Kirkland Houses could have turned into a full-blown melee, with greater violence and injuries. It would mean a crippling of Harvard's ability to respond in the event of any crime, any emergency...
...Start a computer-room brawl of the abovementioned "move it or lose it" variety...
Mullis' personality may have been the only obstacle between him and a Nobel Prize. He was the subject of a profile in last Sunday's Parade magazine, which reported that he once "had a midnight brawl on a beach with a fellow researcher," and which discussed his penchant for sunning himself on the roof rather than working...
Watch a giant takeover brawl unfold before your eyes! Marvel at the clash of colossal egos! Gasp at the gyrating stock prices! Not since the 1980s has Wall Street so unabashedly savored a fight as it did the one that broke out last week for filmmaker Paramount Communications. With a bid from Viacom Inc. valued at $7.5 billion already on the table, QVC shopping-network chairman Barry Diller unveiled a staggering $9.5 billion counteroffer. Paramount stockholders could almost be heard sighing at the thought of their potential profits. In a counterassault with personal overtones, Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone fired back...
...public detests the look and smell of the L.D.P.!" warned Jinen Nagase, a party man from western Japan. Defying the tradition that youth must respect age, junior members of Japan's long-ruling party turned last week's postmortem session about the historic loss at the polls into a brawl of nasty taunts and fraying tempers. It was time, they demanded, for the discredited elders to hand over power to the young...