Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the country had been slowly moving itself onto a track of more consistency and temperance of more consistency and temperance ever since, it relentlessly broke the Western analysts' dream of "peaceful transformation" by perpetrating the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. In that episode, some of the top officials, including Premier Li Peng, were embarrassed when the students on the streets deliberately turned a deaf car to their orders--something regarded as intolerable by China's patriarchs. Guns and blood make clear a "they-can-always-go-back-if-they-want-to" conclusion, and the lesson to be learned here...
This seemed to inspire the Crimson from the beginning. After dominating the first ten minutes of play, freshman forward Judy Collins broke through the Princeton defense to give Harvard a 1-0 lead...
...second half was a frustrating repeat for the Crimson. After missing scoring opportunities on three consecutive corners, Princeton regained possession and broke down field. After a flurry of heavy pressure, Tiger freshman Kirsty Hale was finally able to beat a lunging Milhollin for what proved to be a definitive 2-1 lead...
...less then three minutes later, speedy freshman Judy Collins broke through the defense end blasted a shot past. Tiger cageminder Lix Hill...
...have performed as consistently as Steinhardt, a jeweler's son from Brooklyn whose first shares of stock were a bar mitzvah present from his father. He broke into Wall Street as a research analyst but, by the age of 26, had started his own firm and kicked off his winning streak. One dollar invested with Steinhardt in 1967, the year he founded his firm, would be worth $462 today. That compares with a $17 value today for a dollar invested the same year in the stocks listed in the Standard & Poor's 500. Richard Cooper, an investor who entrusted...