Word: pump
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like other sub-prime lenders, Green Tree makes a business of bundling up loans and selling them as packages of asset-backed securities to pension funds and other big investors. That replenishes Green Tree's capital and lets the lender make fresh loans and thus pump up volume, which grew...
While Leigh has tried to pump up the art in Stojko's martial artistry, it's still the extraordinary jumping that sets Elvis apart. When he attempts his quadruple-toe-loop, triple-toe-loop combination, he revs his speed dramatically, launches, spins four times in the 0.77 of a second that he's airborne, lands on one foot with a force four times his weight, then sucks it up and launches again for the toe loop. In practice he routinely bends his blades, and he recently started skating in a boot sporting an outer layer of ballistic nylon, the stuff...
...must-see rivalries will pit Richards, 28, against Powers, 18, who is an F.I.S. halfpipe prodigy and has already done much to pump up the competitiveness of the F.I.S. circuit. The outgoing Richards, though he had some difficulty in the first Grand Prix event, came on to win the second stop at Mount Bachelor with a fluid technical style rooted in his first passion, skateboarding. Powers, one of the more disciplined and reserved riders on the tour, has exploded into the top rankings this winter with several convincing wins. Even without Haakonsen, the U.S. will have its hands full holding...
...investor's nightmare: market fixers. Tuesday, the Feds nailed 19 bad guys, including some mobsters named "Butch" and "Boobie," in a classic "pump and dump" scheme. Read up on ways to protect yourself...
...playing UMass because we fell like last year's game didn't end the way it was supposed to," Foster said. "Also, when our team first made it to NCAAs two years ago we also lost to UMass, so going into it having lost to them twice will really pump...