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Murphy scored with 14 minutes left in the game off Taucher's pass to break the 3-3 tie and third-line center Hartje added a goal soon after to dent the Red's spirits and put the game solidly in the Crimson's grasp...
...buying a few million shares of a target stock, acquiring them on the open market through a major Wall Street broker. Under SEC rules, however, a raider is obliged to announce his holdings and his intentions once 5% or more of a company's shares are in his grasp. The first result of such an announcement is usually a boost in the stock's price. After the offer is made public, arbitragers, betting that a takeover bid will succeed, jump in and buy as much of the target stock as they can. Shareholders who are willing to sell then have...
Mahler admitted last week that he, like almost everyone else, had been slow to grasp the seriousness of the crisis. "Everything is getting worse and worse in AIDS, and all of us have been underestimating it, and I in particular," he told the New York Times. "I don't know of any greater killer than AIDS...
Harvard seniors know it is their turn to grasp the pigskin and run with it. They have never beaten Yale. This is their last chance...
Philip naively fails to grasp her message, for surely, he thinks, openness is the best policy. But his revelation has already done more than he knows...