Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard Hot Spots Location Temperature Harvard Square 99oF. Adams House E-Entry 92 Claverly Hall, fifth floor 114 Weld Hall, fifth floor 94 Widener Library stacks 94 Pusey Library 76 Lamont Library 76 Stone steps outside Lamont 112 President's house, 17 Quincy st. 84 Steamiest corner of the Harvard Union kitchen 110 Production shop at The Crimson...
Scene: Some watering hole in Queens, New York. The Mets are on the tube, and most of the bar's patrons are making fun of Darryl Strawberry. Except for two gentlemen, who sit in a corner booth. One is opening a bottle of Budweiser. The other is crying...
...Trade erupted in pandemonium as the C.B.O.T. issued an emergency order, its first in a decade, that July futures contracts in excess of 1 million bu. be liquidated. In one day soybean-futures prices plunged 5%, to $6.86 per bu. Traders speculated that a single buyer was trying to corner the market or drive up prices. The suspected culprit: Ferruzzi Finanziaria, Italy's second largest privately held company and the third largest U.S. soybean processor since it bought Indiana-based Central Soya...
...University agreed to scale back plans for a new Office for Information Technology building at the corner of Western Ave. and North Harvard St. and even supplied an optional 10-year development projection...
...zero, actually. Smith complains that he cannot get a bond issue authorized because local officials think that schools are rolling in lottery money. Says Thomas Cummings, head of the Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling: "Before this thing is through, there will be a legal bookie on every block and corner of this country...