Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bucks investors. Couldn't make sense of Intel's latest gibberish on chip demand next quarter? Sure you couldn't: important details get explained in exclusive conference calls. No matter how small investors try to level the field, it always ends up tilted. Get ready for another uphill climb. In the coming weeks, companies will begin reporting second-quarter results, and some stocks will react in ways that defy logic. Why? They are being moved by a relatively new Wall Street device, the "whisper number." Trust me. This whisper is more exciting than anything a dream date might pant into...
...trumpeted the death of sports--games called on account of greed, stupidity and arrogance. "Sports are over," wrote Robert Lipsyte, "because they no longer have any moral resonance." What resonates from Jordan's performance in Game 5 was his utter refusal to quit, his willingness to let the team climb onto his weakened shoulders, his jumper over sickness and exhaustion. We sometimes chide Jordan for not being a better role model, for not speaking out on issues of race and exploitation. But that was a pretty good example he set the other night. The game wasn't about Nike...
Your official speaker will exhort you to climb every mountain and follow your passion. Your paternal speaker suggests that you climb every other mountain and keep your shirt on. But he does have a few thoughts to offer, culled from half a century of immeasurable wisdom. They should just about cover the page...
...sunny Saturday against Columbia, however, Harvard made the first step in a dramatic ascent--a climb which would lead to two school records, an Ivy League championship and a thrilling NCAA tournament postseason...
Harvard wrestling is definitely a program on its way up, even if its climb is shrouded in anonymity on campus...