Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sabre fencers continued the dominance its shown all season, going 9-0 and 8-1, respectively, while the epee lost its final bout to fall 5-4. Despite fatigue from a nine-match week, last night was a relief for the fencers, who faced a much less experienced Jumbo team that has not beaten Harvard in recent memory. “We pretty much knew that Tufts is fairly weak, it’s one of those teams we like to fence every year to support them,” Crimson coach Peter Brand said. “It gives...
...design philosophy is simple: a shoe that can translate easily from the office, to a restaurant, and to cocktails later on. Stripping down her company of all the mumbo-jumbo lingo of high-end design, Chantra defies comparison to the notions of crazy and eccentric fashion personalities so prevalent in popular culture today...
...which the Westerns were prominent examples, and in particular John Wayne in The Searchers. So we kept returning to this Cowboy and Indian mythology, and I wanted to understand why. It didn't seem like a reaction to the actual threat which was coming from engineering students in jumbo jets, not Indians on the Great Plains...
October was supposed to be a month of celebration for Airbus. This is the month, after all, when the European airplane manufacturer is finally set to start delivering its chronically overdue super-jumbo, the A380. Instead, the company has hit turbulence again. This time, however, it's not production delays and boardroom infighting, it's news that market regulatory officials are investigating a potentially massive insider trading scandal at EADS, Airbus's parent. According to documents cited in French press accounts, as many as 1,200 people may wind up targeted by legal action, including some of the loftiest members...
...come in negative does not mean that a recession has started," says managing director Lakshman Achuthan. But the risk is there, and Achuthan guesses it will worsen if loan markets fail to calm down. If a month from now a borrower with good credit still can't get a jumbo mortgage at a reasonable rate, a recession will be much likelier...