Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with their endeavors, delighted with the fresh vegetables and thrilled with the view from the porch, they also discover the risks involved. "A garden," warned Ralph Waldo Emerson, "is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg, and his whole body to irresistible destruction...
...Soviets were moving toward meeting that standard. They also agreed in principle to subceilings, which would limit the number of warheads that could be kept on each "leg" of the strategic triad -- ICBMs, submarine- launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) and intercontinental bombers. The U.S. wanted what it called "preferential" subceilings, which mandated deep cuts in ICBMs, where the Soviets had piled up most of their firepower, while all but leaving alone SLBMs and bombers, two areas of American advantage. "That's not fair, and you know it," said Karpov. "If there are to be subceilings, they'll apply equally...
March 5, 1988: The men's hockey team gets past RPI in the quarterfinals of the ECAC tournament with a 6-4 victory in the second game of the series. Andy Janfaza skips a shot off RPI defenseman Rob Schena's leg and into the net. A favorite expression of Harvard Coach Bill Cleary comes to mind: "I'd rather be lucky than good...
...After I screwed up my leg, Jon screwed up his," Jim adds. "He's like my alter...
...between the two. Supporters of this classic kind of arbitrage say it provides a useful and necessary link to equalize prices between the stock markets in New York City and the futures exchanges in Chicago. But recently some Wall Street firms have taken to delaying one or the other leg of the two- part transaction, depending on which way the market is moving. The effect of such "legging," as the practice is called, is to turn a risk-free transaction into a highly speculative one. Critics charge that it has made stock prices more volatile than ever...