Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...things to ban -- all in the interest, naturally, of slimming health-care costs. One company in Pennsylvania, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, has barred its managers from riding motorcycles: too risky. A Georgia firm has warned its employees to stay away from such life-threatening activities as cliff climbing and surfing...
...price of the new rights climbed from 5 1/2 each on Monday to 8 3/8 at the end of the week. "Investors seem to be breathing a huge sigh of relief," said Christopher Dixon, an analyst for PaineWebber. "This is a significant improvement over the blind rights offering," concurred Cliff Hinkle, executive director of the Florida State Board of Administration, a pension-fund manager that holds 188,000 Time Warner shares and had joined a stockholder suit against the previous plan. "Before, you couldn't tell how much you were going...
...chance. The women eye him, eye the drop ahead of them, imagine a prison stretch, contemplate the last free choice available to them -- life or death -- and floor the accelerator, sailing off the cliff into the movie's concluding whiteout...
...they are facing facts. What they may not have anticipated is how expensive it will be to get out from under Trump's operations. Brinkmanship is the stuff that gamblers are made of, after all, and casino magnate Trump cut his teeth at the edge-of-the-cliff school of negotiations. Don't count him out yet. While he will own less at the end of these negotiations, he will also owe less, and the effect on his net worth remains to be seen. After filling an inside straight in the first round of talks, he's already halfway...
...walk to the edge of a cliff, and I describe to you how wonderful the experience of jumping off would be. I promise you that it's not dangerous--you are with me and you're safe. In your state of confusion, you allow my passionate description of the pleasure and excitement of jumping off the cliff to displace your own judgment, and you are afraid to hurt my feelings, so you jump...