Word: lock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Villanova 70, Columbia 3: To be perfectly honest, I don't know a single thing about the Villanova football team. This game is still a lock to predict...
...experts generally agree that people are wise to lock in longterm profits by selling investments that have already increased greatly in value. But taxpayers might be foolish to dump an investment that is in the middle of a growth spurt. Future profits might be worth far more than the tax advantage gained by selling them now, notes Wallace Turner, a New York City broker for the investment firm of Smith Barney. Says he: "Our culture has put such value on tax breaks that even the savviest investors wonder whether they should dump their best-performing stocks." Wall Streeters hope that...
...that is no Jusitifcation. The irresponsible actions of the Holy Cross football program marred a fine job of coaching preparation by Duffner, and took attention away from the tremendous performances of quadruple threat Gordon Lock-baum, and quarterback Wiley...
...peer pressure. My mom never wanted me to play," says Jackson, who declined millions in Tampa Bay to accept hundreds of thousands in Kansas City. " 'I'm not having you all broke up and limping and sore,' she'd say. When I'd come home that way, she'd lock me out. I'd stay the night with friends...
Giacalone says she "does not seek convictions for the sake of convictions, as if scoring points in some game. It's a balancing act between the claims of justice and civilized society's proclivity for compassion. You don't lock someone up because you can." But the woman who once walked to school along 101st Avenue does not have much compassion for the men who hung around the Bergen Hunt and Fish Club; she wants to lock up John Gotti not because she can, but because he deserves...