Word: butte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eventually get immune to it, but sometimes I lay awake at night. Sometimes I feel I've been working my butt off all this past year, and I haven't got anything done. It's a frame of mind. I go home, my kid says to me, "Dad, what's the matter? You look awful. Did you have a hard day?" I say, "I must have had a hard day; I'm totally exhausted...
During the heyday of takeover lending and junk-bond financing, the patrician investment firm Morgan Stanley was often the butt of ridicule. While more aggressive firms plunged into risky new techniques, Morgan, despite a leading role in corporate takeovers, seemed stuck in its stodgy habit of underwriting stock for blue-chip companies and selling investment-grade bonds. The new breed was playing high-stakes Monopoly, the joke went, while the stuffed shirts at Morgan were playing Trivial Pursuit. But no one is laughing at Morgan's expense anymore. The firm, founded in 1935, is the most profitable on Wall Street...
...guys went out there thinking, 'We're not just happy to be here, we're here to kick some butt,'" Fish said. "Our guys have shown a healthy respect for our opponents, but they have not been awed." Tigers 5-3 at Louisville...
...away. The cloth was frayed on the edge, where metal strut met canvas and cotton. Sometime soon, somebody was going to sit on that chair in the modernistic/artistic apartment it almost undoubtably used to reside in, and the cloths would part and Lo! a guest would be on his butt. With an injury at one end and a threat of suit at the other. Out went the chair. Along came me, and the chair, well, it came too. I figured to fix it and give...
...with nothing but those lovely white-knitted snowflakes among its branches, green and huge, would have been beautiful. Clearly my employees, my Govern-Ment, was doing a lousey job; some Christmas Bulbs'n'Tinsel business was winning out over the Old People, and I meant to kick some beauracratic butt. "Lobbying," or "white collar terrorism," is the more usual term...