Word: got
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson had to endure a scare before recording the win. Minutes into the third period, Dartmouth defender Nate Dudley drilled a slapshot at Roy. The sophomore netminder got a stick on the bullet, but the puck dribbled over the line to cut Harvard's lead to two goals...
With a little help from Western publications, exiled dissidents are again employing fax technology to send their pro-democracy views into China. But last week authorities got the message and ordered all work units equipped with the machines to intercept the transmission of objectionable material...
Like many another entrepreneur, Bond had never given much thought to art until he got rich. "This Pie-casso, now," he asked an Australian museum man over dinner in Sydney in the early 1980s, "is he worth having?" But a major impressionist collection was what Bond hankered after. He knew this could not possibly come cheap. He didn't care. He was, in short, a dealer's dream: Billionaris ignorans, a species now almost extinct in the U.S. but preserved (along with other ancient life-forms) in the Antipodes...
...asset at the end of the term. (The law, needless to say, was framed to help undercapitalized businesses that cannot afford new tractors, not financiers who want to turn a Manet into a tax loss.) Bond had the Manet from Chemical on such an operating lease and got tax write- offs on it that may have run as high as $3.5 million...
...break / down the Berlin Wall two weeks ago, dozens of local U.S. news teams headed to Berlin from markets as big as Seattle and as small as Manchester, N.H. Says John Spinola, general manager of Westinghouse-owned station WBZ in Boston: "Every time I look around, we've got someone out of the country...