Word: dump
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appointment reached a black-tie U.N. dinner, there was no international equivalent of high fives. Could she, muttered colleagues, gear down her confrontational style enough to succeed in the delicate art of nation-to-nation negotiation? French diplomats, who tangled with her over her aggressive campaign to dump U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, were pointedly ordered to speak of her new appointment only in positive terms...
John J. Applebaum '97 has just turned in his applications for legal consulting and investment banking. His advice? "Start early, dump your papers, don't go to classes, forget your thesis and double-check your resumes," he says. "I haven't done this. My apps are ragged...
...some ways an open trial is what they fear most. That could dump a flood of classified information onto the public record. To obtain a conviction for espionage, the government must prove that the information passed to a foreign power affects national security. To say it was classified is not enough. The defense can call in still more classified information. So right now the intelligence community is also taking a deep breath. "The one thing they really want is a confession, so they can avoid a trial," says a retired CIA official...
...next go-round. So it was with the recent arrest of 46 illegal stock promoters in New York. The FBI, U.S. Attorney, Securities and Exchange Commission and National Association of Securities Dealers collaborated to knock out a ring of hustlers who use high-pressure sales tactics to dump inflated stocks on unwary investors. Who was in charge? "That's a hot potato," an official confides...
Students at Stanford University are attempting to organize a nationwide movement to convince the magazine to dump its current rankings system. The students have attacked the ratings as shallow and subjective but dangerous because so many students and administrators take them seriously...