Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...name and the claim sound like someone's idea of a joke: the Wunsch Auction System, looming threat to the New York Stock Exchange. The setting is no more promising. Ex-broker Steven Wunsch, 44, is launching his enterprise from an apartment crammed with stationery, two sagging sofas and a personal computer. But Wall Street and the 199-year-old N.Y.S.E. regard Wunsch with utter seriousness. His mission is to prove you can exchange stock without stock exchanges, and he seems to be succeeding...
...what they want" -- for more than a decade, NBC Entertainment chairman Brandon Tartikoff followed that ancient maxim with awesome consistency. Such small-screen phenoms as L.A. Law, Cheers and The Cosby Show entered American living rooms and hearts during King Brandon's reign, transforming NBC from a Johnny Carson joke into the industry powerhouse. NBC has led the networks in the annual ratings regatta since 1985, but this year's margin of victory (over No. 2 ABC) was as thin as a soap opera's plot...
...appeared in the town of Zakhu, near the tent cities the allies are building for the Kurds. The gunmen were defying U.S. military orders that all Iraqi security forces withdraw to a line 25 miles to the south. Though they wore police uniforms, the men, plainly soldiers, made a joke of their disguise, shouting to reporters, "Police, police!" and laughing...
Before he graduates, Joshua M. Sharfstein '91 would like to apologize to everyone he has ever played a practical joke on--except his roommates...
...cheap practical joke changed my life...