Word: chuted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boenish quickly points out) is illegal. One of the great early jumps, from which springs the present fad of BASE (for Buildings, Antenna towers, Spans and Earth) jumping was made in 1970 by Rick Sylvester. He skied off of Yosemite's 7,569-ft. El Capitan, popped a chute and floated down to the meadow below. Some 120 bandit jumps followed, and finally, in 1980, the park grudgingly began handing out permits, a futile and short-lived exercise in imposing bureaucracy on a sport that is inherently anarchic. Boenish, said to be among the more responsible BASE jumpers, seems...
...Chrysler car pretty soon": "Would I vote against it again? Yes. As a matter of principle and precedent, I do not feel the Government should bail out companies. As chairman of the Small Business Committee, I have lived through two years of seeing little companies go down the chute in record numbers. Having said that, do I feel Chrysler and lacocca have done a superb job? No question about it. I'm delighted to see Chrysler succeeding...
...least one occasion, and animal got the best of Fleming. A bull rider was sitting in the chute waiting for his turn and his best started thrashing around. When Fleming looked over, the bull had pinned his rider against the back of the chute...
Bendix Corp. was locked in a bitter and ultimately losing takeover battle in September as company directors huddled to plot strategy. Among their hurried decisions: a so-called golden parachute for Chairman William Agee and 15 other Bendix officers. The chute, which was designed to protect the executives following a buyout by another company, guarantees Agee an $805,000 annual salary for five years even if he is fired. That lucrative arrangement was presumably authorized by the board's compensation committee and approved by the directors, as is typical in such cases. But at Bendix there was a twist...
...Coach [1 rank] Haggerty had let us know during the course of the race that in order to win we needed to pass Cornell's third and fourth men." Rippy said, some time after the race. "So we made out move in the finishing chute...