Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This leaves the two parties at a virtual dead heat--the Dems with 181 electoral college votes and the GOP with 190. Whoever captures California and the South wins...
Choice assignment for a lawyer, to work for millionaires in search of grubbing further millions from dead old ladies. Almost as good as working for a percentage of a multibillion takeover bid or antitrust suit. Lawyers come out of the woodwork when vast sums of unused capital are up for grabs...
DELARRAIN, on the other hand, was forced to scrape together a couple of hundred thousand dollars for a rent-an-attorney to protect his fiscal turf, not to mention his reputation. When the enemy slinged accusations that he had married a woman old enough to be his dead ancestor, de Larrain was defensive. He really had warm feelings for the old gal, he protested. And even if he didn't he certainly had put in the time...
...Ithaca. That's the home of Harvard hockey hatred in the world. That's where the Crimson bumped off Cornell, 6-3. The Big Red was dead this year: the team didn't qualify for the ECAC playoffs and Cornell Coach Lou Reycroft quit. Junior Joe Nieuwendyk, the ECAC MVP and the Red's first-line center, elected to skip his senior year and jump to the Calgary Flames...
...course each building's benefactors will maintain that their actions are purely altruistic--this is despite the fact that those of us not brain-dead know that the donations would be anonymous if this were true. These contributions are offered by a rich person in a feeble effort to combat mortality--to find security in the knowledge that for hundreds of years people will remember him, Ichabod T. Shmuck, every time they write a return address from "Ichabod T. Shmuck Hall...