Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...played a great first period," Tomassonisaid. "But in the second, the dam finally broke...
...Ewing broke his own school record for single-game blocked shots with six. The 6'9" center added 10 points, eight rebounds andtwo steals in 19 minutes of play as game's mostprominent impact figure...
...most part, these panelists insisted that randomization has been bad for black students. Randomization broke up the self-segregated black student community in the Quad, leaving black students with no place where they could feel entirely at home. It uses students of color as symbols of diversity who "season the rice" of the College's predominantly white landscape. Finally, they argued that students should be allowed to self-segregate if they choose. All the panelists might not have agreed with this agenda, but if they disagreed, they did so amid so many qualifications and disclaimers that they came across...
...because most of us are the kind of people who at bottom believe, despite the educated words we might use in debate, that the rules do not apply to us. It is the same attitude that allows people to claim that it wasn't their fault that they broke Joey's leg during recess; Joey was provoking them, and they were just defending themselves, wouldn't you do the same thing? Or that it wasn't they who accepted campaign funds illegally, that they have no idea where that money came from, that it's perfectly legal, just look...
...Recognize your mistakes. It's said that surgeons often make lousy investors because their work requires a supreme self-confidence that can hurt them in the markets. They'll hold a stock until they get even or go broke. That's a fatal attitude. When a stock has fallen, you've lost the money whether you sell or not. Take another look, and be ready to accept that you might have missed something the first time. That's what Tisch did. Last quarter Loews "reduced its exposure" to the stuff that produced the massive losses. Now is a good time...