Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hits From the Bong" in the Science Center terminal room? Don't I fight for my right to party? I smile as I recall the wealthy, cookie-cutter suburb of New York City where I grew up. Maybe I'm not quite ready to break out the turntables and drop rhymes like my childhood in a multi-acre, tree-lined estate compels me to. But at least my relationship with hip-hop goes beyond a fondness for the Fat Boys. Because when I was growing up, everyone's father was a lawyer, and everyone's mother was a real estate...
...year s perceived epidemic remained just a memory. Now, a year after the first rash of publicity, it seems appropriate to ask just what happened. Was it just some sort of premature millenial outbreak? God s belated answer to the prayers of the Luddites? Or is the the perceived drop-off merely a mirage, a product of the short attention span of our own Fourth Estate? The fact is, no one really knows...
...years that I've spent chronicling Wall Street, and the foibles and traits of characters like McColl, I've learned a lot about how fortunes are made. For McColl, a no-nonsense work ethic and drop-dead loyalty to trusted managers have transformed him from small-town banker to first-class sensation. Sandy Weill, co-CEO of Citigroup, earned riches by seizing out-of-favor companies when, he says, they "look like a disaster to someone else but like an opportunity...
...INVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES, MTV MIGHT HAVE LET us move inside and out of the rain. No such luck. We still have one more hour on the sidewalk. Now, however, we are out on Broadway beneath the windows of the MTV studios, and in an effort to suck every last drop of free publicity out of our suffering, we are offered "Wannabee a VJ" signs to carry while we wait. We decline the honor, but those around us embrace their servitude with glee...
Freshman Andrea Magyera, playing in the No. 2 slot for the Crimson, dominated her Dartmouth counterpart Allison Taff, 6-2, 6-2, to finish her Ivy season undefeated in singles play. Mixing powerful groundstrokes with deft backhand drop shots, Magyera made quick work of Taff...