Word: riding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even Iowa State (20-8), another team with a natural disaster motif (the Cyclones), might be able to ride the back of big Kelvin Cato all the way to Indianapolis...
...fact, Singleton is notorious for "the first time." In 1978 a 15-year-old Las Vegas, Nevada, runaway named Mary Vincent hitched a ride outside San Francisco with a balding man in a blue van. The man approached her sexually, backed off, but later--having liquored up--beat her, bound her and raped her twice. Then he got his ax. He chopped off her arms and left her in a concrete culvert to die. She didn't. The next day, read court records, Vincent was found "wandering nude ... holding up her arms so that the muscles and blood would...
...party leaders now have a vested interest in the economy's steady advance. As their Marxist ideology loses all legitimacy under the wave of money that has finally turned the country, after 150 years of sullen resentment, into a strong competitor with the West, their very survival seems to ride on their ability to keep the economy going...
...Jack Freedman, a Los Angeles film producer, favors stocks that yield sizable dividends, even if that means missing more glamorous performers. "I'm totally diversified, and I sleep very well at night," Freedman says. Such investors wisely run neither to nor from the bull market, but have learned to ride its up and downs. Alan Sunkel, a glassware entrepreneur in Kansas City, Missouri, recently shifted 10% of his $250,000 portfolio from stocks to money-market funds, lowering his equity holdings to 65%. "I'm worried about the market pulling back," he says. "But I wouldn...
...small eyes focused on you with intensity. Then he would look away, far away, perhaps at some distant vision of the China he wanted to build, or possibly at the memory of some past indignity he had survived on his roller-coaster ride between history and oblivion. His hands gestured constantly, and until his family stopped him, he chain-smoked. To those in thrall to the urbane charm of his old ally Zhou Enlai, Deng seemed crude, speaking with a guttural Sichuanese accent and always keeping a spittoon next to his chair. His size--he was truly tiny...