Word: clocked
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Sumner Redstone, a man who does not easily toss in his cards, was determined not to be shunted aside in the bidding war for Paramount Communications last week. As the clock ticked down toward a Friday-midnight deadline for new bids, Wall Street was wondering whether Viacom Inc.'s chairman would be able to pull a last-minute rabbit out of his hat. Unknown to most analysts and investors, a team of investment advisers and lawyers was secretly huddled at the Ritz Carlton hotel in New York City negotiating a blockbuster of a deal that would help Viacom beat...
...This difference affects the way women approach work -- their peak childbearing years usually coincide with their make-or-break career years -- as well as the dating game. Instead of looking at men casually, with that insouciance so valued by the Letterman generation, panicky women for whom the biological clock is tolling evaluate each prospect for his potential as a father. This one-sided pressure to mate alters the social firmament. The very act of needing to be married and to have a child before it is too late may keep a woman from reaching her goal; a woman for whom...
...orchestra remains a proud exception to the age of clock-watching union stewards, pettifogging management and perils-of-Pauline finances. Players routinely take their parts home to practice, and they sometimes request extra rehearsal time in particularly difficult or unfamiliar works. Morale is buoyed by the support of the city, which treats the musicians as local celebrities; the death last November of longtime concertmaster Daniel Majeske occasioned editorial eulogies the likes of which would be rare elsewhere. Under executive director Thomas W. Morris, the orchestra sits atop an impressive $73 million endowment, operates in the black and is retiring...
Lady Luck also dealt the Crimson a full house as the clock wound down, with Harvard clinging to its one goal lead and facing 1:38 of a penalty kill (1:09 of which was 5-on-3) to end the game. Mike Latendersse, already with two goals on the night, failed to collect an easy centering pass in the slot. He had room to gun past Harvard's Tripp Tracy on the short side, but the puck slid under his blade to the near corner...
David Turner was under siege last week. A junior at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, and editor in chief of the weekly Justice, the student newspaper, he had become a pariah on campus. His phone rang around the clock with irate calls from students and alumni denouncing him as a "monster" and an "anti-Semite." His car was defaced and he was threatened with bodily harm. Some 2,000 copies of Justice were stolen and presumably destroyed, and when the issue was reprinted, 200 students rallied in protest and a guard had to be assigned to ensure the paper...