Word: punched
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...advance. Raising borrowing costs now, they fear, will choke off the budding boom, in part by making purchases of such things as houses and cars harder to finance. Republican Congressman Toby Roth of Wisconsin complained to Greenspan last week, "Many of us feel that you're taking away the punch bowl as the guests are still taking their coats off." But Fed officials liken early moves against inflation to taking away the punch bowl before the party gets out of hand...
...copy of The Porcellian Club's fall 1993 punch book gives the inside information on many of the 133 strapping young "embryos" punched for the club...
With their minds thus concentrated, one thought dominated all those at the meeting: how to throw a knockout punch that would be, as one of them put it, a "Diller-killer." The notion of tossing in more cash or stock was quickly nixed as too costly. So were bigger warrants and increased dividends. After several such options were rejected, Greenhill turned to one of his whiz-kid investment-banking strategists, Michael Levitt, 35, who described a scheme he said would blow away Diller. The novel plan called for issuing a type of security, called a contingent value right...
Marshall "(14.2 points, 7.0 rebounds per game) teams with Justin Treadwell (16.5 points, 7.7 rebounds) to give the Big Red a stinging one-two punch inside...
Lynx members will not say whether their groupis final club, though organizers recentlyconducted a closed punch to select members. Asource said the Lynx, which has about 20 members,has modeled itself...