Word: lurch
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...interesting thing about life is that it does not come prepackaged in a three-act structure the way most movies do. It tends to lurch along like - oh, say, a disputed election in Florida. Take the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. Since we are all still here to savor this accurate reconstruction of those anguished days, we know everything came out all right in the end. But seen through the eyes of presidential aide Kenny O'Donnell (Costner), it is still a suspenseful tale. Well acted too, especially by Costner and Greenwood as John F. Kennedy. The players...
...what may go down as the strangest presidential election night in United States history, a victor was declared who was not yet a victor, a concession speech was awaited but never came, and an old-style Texas victory party was left in the lurch...
...drama worthy of the Bard, no winners emerged last night, as victory speeches and cheering crowds were left in the lurch and concession speeches were retracted. In the end, no man would emerge victorious, or at least on this night...
Less fortunate applicants, left in the lurch by the double whammy of average parents with average-sized bank accounts, can't cope by finding scholarships because tax codes prohibit foundations from funding participation in partisan political activity...
When the stock market careened out of control last Tuesday, Rick Neely could only hold on tight. Neely, the interim chief executive of Beyond.com a struggling software seller, had 200,000 options priced at $7 a share riding on every lurch. Last April, when Beyond.com stock hit $37, such options would have been worth $6 million--chump change by dotcom standards but far better than last week's figure. With Beyond.com down to $3.75, his options were "under water"--worthless. "The drop this week was so dramatic, you can't even comprehend it," says Neely, who took over in January...