Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late in the first half, senior safety Jeff Compas appeared to get away with a pass interference penalty. Dartmouth receiver Zach Ellis was by Compas, who fell and appeared to knock Ellis's feet out from under him but was not flagged...
...opportunity to win the game. On what would prove to be his final field goal attempt, sophomore Nathan Dean snapped the ball too high. The holder, senior Jared Chupaila, was forced to reach out for the ball, and then quickly place it down upon the turf for Giampaolo to knock it through the uprights...
...finance the MCI buyout. The resulting company would have $40 billion in revenues and an unbelievable $54 billion in debt. Lee tried to assure investors that the combined companies would throw off enough cash to cover the interest payments. But the mere thought of that debt burden helped knock nearly $4 off the price of GTE stock last week. GTE finished trading at $46.06 a share...
...Days of Heaven, an opaque allegory about migrant farm workers in Texas on the eve of World War I. It is so lyrically beautiful and narratively elliptical that its cast, which included Richard Gere and Sam Shepard, was upstaged by a field of wheat--which might sound like a knock on the film but is really a tribute to the quiet, meditative power of its best moments, of its preoccupation with the verities of the natural world. As one might assume from that description, Days of Heaven, like Badlands, fared poorly at the box office. Unlike Badlands, it also received...
...upside is that I get to make records for a career," Hanley confides. "It makes me happy that this is what I get to do with my life. [But] I've never been good with criticism...the more successful you become, the more people want to knock you down...