Word: gately
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minutes later, with their heels clicking in step and their right fists raised in defiance, the protesters began marching out Johnston Gate and onto Mass...
...Cornell supersophomores Kent Manderville and Ryan Hughes (7-16--23), senior Joe Dragon (15-24--39) and Co-Captain Doug Derraugh (16-13--29) to make up for the loss of second-leading scorer Ross Lemon and help a dismal seventh-place team offense break out of the gate. ECAC Rookie of the Year Manderville (11-15--26)--a second-round Flames' selection in 1989--looms as Cornell's greatest scoring threat because of his size, explosive speed and power...
...could do." A case in point is Boosler on airline absurdities, doing an Alan King staple her way: "The pilot says, 'We are currently hurtling through the air at 500 m.p.h. Please feel free to move about the cabin.' Then you land. You're rolling to the gate at 1 m.p.h. and you hear: 'You must remain seated for your own safety! Sit down!' I'm wondering, could we take off again? I need my coat from the overhead...
When he joined the Wall Street Journal in 1983, reporter Bryan Burrough could barely tell a buyout from a bailout. But Burrough, 29, co-author of the best seller Barbarians at the Gate, has become a formidable chronicler of Roaring Eighties-style shenanigans and greed. In a deal befitting a literary superstar, publisher HarperCollins last month agreed to pay Burrough $1 million for a book on American Express and the smear campaign it waged in the 1980s against international banker Edmond Safra. "I was absolutely stunned," Burrough said of the cash advance. "To me, the money is not a real...
HarperCollins gave Burrough his million partly to reward him for Barbarians at the Gate. Burrough and fellow Journal reporter John Helyar shared a $150,000 advance for that vivid saga of the $25 billion RJR-Nabisco takeover war. They wrote the 528-page book in just seven months. An instant hit, Barbarians has sold more than 300,000 copies so far and has been a fixture on best-seller lists for 38 weeks...