Word: getting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anxiously awaiting [Sneddon] to get here," Weisbrod said. "I was running around the rink getting him gear from the JV players. I wanted him out there more than anyone else...
...authorizing the executive board to lose $50,000," said Council Chair Guhan Subramanian '91-92. "This is money we fully expect to get back," he said. Subramanian did not vote on the measure...
...this is a problem. To The Crimson, the real world is not terribly important. Most Crimson reporters are content to stay within the fantasy-land of Harvard Square. Why bother to get the facts straight? It's all a game, and writing articles is an educational diversion for amateur journalists. So what if you end up creating news instead of reporting...
...despite all their high-tech wizardry, stepping machines offer little that a staircase cannot provide. "There is nothing magical about the machines," says Steve Farrell of the Institute for Aerobic Research in Dallas. "You can get the exact same benefit from just climbing stairs in the home or office." And going between floors on foot can be healthier for the bank account...
...institutions as part of a vastly larger quantity of gray money, as bankers call it. This dubious, laundered cash amounts to an estimated $1 trillion or more each year. Often legitimately earned, this money has an endless variety of sources: an Argentine businessman who dodges currency-control laws to get his savings out of the country; a multinational corporation that seeks to "minimize" its tax burden by dumping its profits in tax-free havens; a South African investor who wants to avoid economic sanctions; an East German Communist leader who stashed a personal nest egg in Swiss bank accounts...