Word: nails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...firm shortly after he was hired. He joined another company in 1992 before it went public, but by 1996 the company was floundering, and "my options weren't worth anything." Next came a stint as director of engineering for a database firm called ADB Matisse. The company couldn't nail down venture-capital funding and went under after three months...
Harvard's second match of the weekend was a marathon-length, nail-biting 16-14, 16-14, 13-15, 16-14 win over Rutgers...
...know-what, invoking executive privilege all the while. Even when the effort was doomed, when Monica hardly qualified as national security, Clinton used the privilege successfully to stall for time. Time is short now; if the Republicans have recovered their appetite for scandal, they?re unlikely to nail the White House?s elusive current occupant. And there's another thing to think about: the risk of alienating an electorate sated with scandal and irritated by endless investigations...
...Pats aren't that bad, but the J-E-T-S just might be that good. The revenge of Curtis Martin and a Meadowlands full of Big Apple faithful salivating over the prospect of a postseason without John Elway ought to cover this fleshy spread without too much nail-biting. Parcells will miss injured plugger Wayne Chrebet ? but not this week...
...space above his face, Ismail was withdrawn and hallucinatory in the early days of his recovery. His mother is in a different hospital with a crushed femur. Ismail seems to sense the unspoken news that his father is dead, as are three sisters. Yet despite his troubles, says Nail Yologlu, one of Ismail's doctors, the boy is healing. "In a ferocious way," says the physician, "he is coming...