Word: dunks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much. A major misconception of televised sport is that a long play-off series delivers a slam dunk of advertising dollars. In the case of the N.B.A., 85% of the ads are sold in advance as a four-year package. Only 15% of the ads are sold after it is established that extra games prove necessary--and often the leftover spots aren't worth that much more...
...last year. (An option gives the holder the right to buy stock at a preset price within a specific period of time, regardless of what happens in the market.) You don't need to take off your socks to figure that a stock gain of merely $1--a slam dunk for any company that is not soundly asleep--mints an instant $1 million for each of those CEOs. That's pay for showing up, not pay for performance. A growing number of CEOs get so-called megagrants, which are grants of stock options valued at more than three times...
Yale tied the game again at 46 apiece but was never able to take a lead. Hill hit a 17-footer and sophomore Bill Ewing picked up a loose ball for a dunk, putting Harvard up by four with 10 minutes left...
...defense were junior Mike Scott, who set the school record for steals with seven, and Snowden, who pulled down 13 boards. Perhaps the most satisfying point of the game came off of Scott's fifth steal when he ran down the court and wowed the crowd with a slam dunk...
...near halfcourt, Scott took the ball away from Rosneck and slammed his second fast-break dunk of the game. On the next Yale possession, senior Dave Weaver blocked an Okonkwo shot, and Grancio hit a three-pointer, effectively quashing the Elis' hopes...