Word: felt
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Well, how did you do it? It felt like it was four years' worth of work. There was so much volatility. We changed the stocks around a lot throughout the year. In July, when the banks were cratering, we bought Bank of America at 18 [dollars a share], and it jumped right back up to the 30s, and we sold it there. That's not something you usually do within a month's time. Last year was really opportunistic. In a month's time you went from cheap to fairly valued - and in many cases back down to cheap...
...like a Pied Piper," said Michael Devine, a Port Jefferson, N.Y., lawyer who represents salespeople at the firm who "felt something wasn't right." The salespeople were selling friends and family on Agape's high-yield claims. "[Cosmo] actually sat down with investors and explained his investments to them. He was a very convincing salesman," said Devine. (Read "Beyond Madoff, Ponzi Schemes Proliferate...
...season. “We were really excited to get back on the court after exam period. We had the opportunity to practice beforehand to get back into a rhythm,” junior captain Johanna Snyder said. “This was our first difficult match and I felt we all played very well.” Harvard was paced by its upperclassmen, all of whom recorded 3-0 sweeps. No. 6 Snyder rolled over Stanford’s Kyla Sherwood, 9-1, 9-0, 9-3. Fellow junior Katherine O’Donnell surrendered only six points...
...Emotional Love Approach" interrogators can use to get information from prisoners: "Love in its many forms (friendship, comradeship, patriotism, love of family) is a dominant emotion for most people. [The interrogator] focuses on the anxiety felt by the source about the circumstances in which he finds himself, his isolation from those he loves, and his feelings of helplessness. The [interrogator] directs the love the source feels toward the appropriate object: family, homeland, or comrades. If the [interrogator] can show the source what the source himself can do to alter or improve his situation or the situation of the object...
...former KGB operative, who spied on Britain under diplomatic cover during the Cold War, by his own account scouring news sources such as the Standard for tidbits to feed to his handlers back home. His exotic pedigree has caused a few splutters. Richard Ottway, a Conservative MP, said he felt that "the fact that [Lebedev] has been a member of a foreign security service" meant there should be an inquiry into the sale. "I think it's one more example that we are no more a serious nation that we allow a serious paper to be taken over...