Word: knock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like the quickest kid in the hunt on Easter Sunday, many investors end up with a lot of eggs in one basket. It's not really their fault. The rapid rise of stock-based compensation at work is a primary culprit--and who's going to knock programs that grant stock options and otherwise stuff employee accounts with company shares through stock-purchase, profit-sharing and 401(k) plans? The problem is that many folks end up with their retirement dreams tethered to a single stock...
...intoned, "ceaselessly study Velazquez." And from that study, Sargent got three of the major traits of his style. The first was a consummate skill in rendering objects and people bathed in space and low light. The second was its apparent straightforwardness--its ability to make a gesture count, to "knock in" the folds of a black dress or the petals of a white rose with the utmost economy. And the third was a sense of pictorial decorum, the artist's refusal to parade his feelings. With Velazquez, you always know what he was seeing; what he was feeling, never...
...doorstep of fellow mathematicians without warning--a frail, disheveled, elderly man, hopped up on amphetamines and wearing a ratty raincoat--and announce, in a thick Hungarian accent, "My mind is open." For a day, or a week or a month, the man or woman who answered the knock would have to take nonstop care of this helpless guest who couldn't figure out how to cut a grapefruit or wash his underwear--and in return would be permitted the exhausting, exhilarating experience of following the thought processes of Paul Erdos, the most prolific and arguably the cleverest mathematician...
...early lead 4:47 into the game. Ruggiero stepped in front of a UNH centering pass and took off down the ice. She walked through the Wildcat defense and wristed a shot right at Roberts. The UNH netminder failed to cover up, and Francisco hustled into the crease to knock in the rebound before crashing into...
...Crimson line rounded out the scoring in impressive fashion. At 12:48 of the third, Shewchuk sent a cross-ice pass to Botterill, and the ECAC Rookie of the Year was waiting at the right post to knock in her only goal of the game...