Word: preyed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...species. But that hasn't stopped the killing of thousands in recent years. Poachers armed with semiautomatics hunt the animal year-round, and not just when the chirus' coats are thickest. Despite the threat of seven years in jail or a $130 fine, poachers continue to pursue their prey...
...They prey on our desire to find the "Harvard" of everything: activities...
...saying that Harvard has fallen prey to an unfruitful nearsightedness. Hast not a nectarine eyes, hands, organs, dimensions-or at least a stem and sweet juicy flesh? Is there a reason that mangos and granny smiths cannot sit together on the same fruit table of brotherhood...
...preschool or kindergarten--or even later. "Separation is not an event. It's a process," says Mary Ucci, director of the Child Study Center at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass. "It doesn't happen once. It happens continually over a lifetime." In fact, adults starting a new job are prey to the same prickles of panic that children experience on their first day of the school year...
...investors gave us a big market cap--in essence, a club to beat up or buy up competitors. But then they took the club away before we could start swinging. We were looking brash and predator-like--top of the food chain. Now we feel like timid prey. A chart of our stock looks like one half of the Apollo's Chariot ride at Busch Gardens--the first part, which starts at the top. It's been a dizzying decline...