Word: rides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harken's few profitable ventures was its high-flying commodities trading arm. But suddenly in 1989 the division racked up a $17 million loss, prompting Quasha to shut down the operation. Insiders say the oil traders never had careful supervision, systematic controls or enough money in the bank to ride out a downturn...
...that Harvard could not score a crucial TD with under three minutes to play? Why was it that nobody could make the big play, score the winning touchdown and make the six-hour ride back to Cambridge more pleasant...
...years ago, a piggyback ride from saucy Sassy might have been bumpy. At its 1988 start-up, the magazine's frank material -- the pros and cons of virginity, for example -- drew the fire of the Moral Majority, and advertisers turned shy. They returned after the magazine softened its controversial profile...
...large investment bank in Asia or an international consulting firm in Europe? Or how about spending the year after you graduate working to preserve the rainforests in Costa Rica or writing speeches for a member of Parliament in London? Would you like a teaching job a short bus ride from the Acropolis, or perhaps the chance to be a journalist in India...
...this anthology, only to be reborn in grotesque form. The bleak life of a homeless woman is snuffed out through blind chance in "Zombies on Broadway," by Kaz, whose characters recall the hollow face and tortured body of the man in Edvard Munch's "The Scream." And woodcut figures ride the subway to self-immolation in the Village Voice's Mark Beyer's "The Unpleasant Subway...