Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the game knotted at 59, Harvard looked toits strongest scoring threat--Clemente--for a lift,and the sophomore delivered. Receiving the ball inthe post, Clemente muscled inside for a toughlay-up, picking up a foul in the process. He madegood on he free throw, putting Harvard up forgood...
...company that is buying Volvo's carmaking division is no slouch at sequencing either. In Saarlouis, Germany, Ford representatives show off a 3,000-foot-long ski-lift contraption that feeds 58,000 sequenced components daily into the company's assembly flow, replacing 3 million miles' worth of truck travel over the course of the year. The modular scheme will enable the company to offer the same diversity of car models on just 16 different chassis by next year, down from 32 platforms in 1998, as part of an overall plan to trim yearly costs $1 billion worldwide...
...watch, nearly a dozen psychics have been arrested on charges ranging from fortunetelling, a selectively enforced misdemeanor punishable by up to 90 days in jail, to grand larceny, a felony. One clairvoyant allegedly convinced a client that rubbing her body with raw eggs and bathing in special potions would lift a curse. The cost of that exorcism? About $500,000. A similarly inventive psychic encouraged an undercover cop to buy 90 candles, at $55 each, to fend off evil spirits...
...becomes two shares worth $50 each. That doesn't change the intrinsic value. But it does make the stock more affordable for small investors, who like to buy in round lots of, say, 100 shares. That's one reason stocks that split have historically got about a 5% lift between the date of the announcement and the actual split. Lately, though, the pop has been more explosive. EBay rose a quick 37%; Xerox, 10%; Microsoft, 12%. People now pay for services that alert them via pager or e-mail whenever a split is announced, so they can quickly...
...room for this monument to television is no small matter either. The corner of our living room, which my wife had reserved for a baby grand (insert your own marital discord here), was cleared for the HDTV's landing, which required three men and a truck with a hydraulic lift...