Word: nails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next season there was that great shutout win over Cornell which was the final nail in the coffin for the Big Red's playoff hopes. I can still hear the band saying, "It's Valentine's Day, and you can't score...
...team championship will not earn that spotlight. To clinch first place there, a squad must rise with the sun and nail down times in the trial heats. Because, at this Women's Easterns, it's the early bird that gets the title...
Boesky's cooperation will probably help investigators nail other insider traders. So will last month's Supreme Court decision that upheld the conviction of R. Foster Winans, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who leaked advance information about his stories to brokers. The court ruled that improper use of inside information amounted to theft of property and that defendants could be tried under the Government's sweeping antifraud laws. The decision, says Giuliani, has "made it easier for prosecutors to bring fraud cases without fear that they will be reversed." Edward Brodsky, a Manhattan- based securities attorney, agrees: "The court...
This job is all nails and glue. Israel and his seven-man crew will remove all the doors and windows, complete with jambs and frames, from the spacious room, as well as the thick sheets of mahogany paneling on the walls. They use specially designed tools to do so. "Nobody makes tools to go backward in construction," says Israel. "We have to make our own pry bars and nail cutters to get behind paneling and under plumbing fixtures...
...Agustin Roman was driven slowly past the center's wire fences. "My brothers, give me your weapons," pleaded the frail Roman Catholic clergyman. "Give me the hostages. No man can ask for freedom while denying it to others." One by one, the detainees placed machetes, pipes, handmade spears and nail-studded sticks in a pile amid the ruins of the administration building. Said a tearful detainee to the bishop: "We knew you wouldn't abandon...