Word: rolled
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Morey had three catches for 37 yards in Brown's scoreless second half. Although he made this week's Ivy League honor roll, Morey could not have felt good--psychologically or physically--about Harvard's victory
...representing a group of white students turned down by the University of Michigan who, it contends, would have been admitted under the standards applied to minority applicants. Conservative strategists have come to view the federal courts as their best ally in the battle against affirmative action. Proposals to roll back racial preferences have gone nowhere in Congress. Affirmative-action foes won big in California last year with Proposition 209, but that victory has turned out to be difficult to repeat in other states. The federal judiciary, however, is proving far more receptive. Two years ago, the Supreme Court showed...
...right. That morning, the Dow was down an additional 190 points, but that proved to be a bottom. By 11 a.m., Peter Mancuso, floor manager and senior partner at Buttonwood Specialists, was on a roll. "All I hear is buy, buy, buy. It is unbelievable," he exclaimed. The excitement on the floor was uncontrollable. One floor trader shouted at a reporter, "Get out of my way. You're costing me money...
...logical turn of the wheel. In Broadway's golden era, the songs Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and others wrote for the stage were the same ones that sat atop the nation's hit parade. But with the advent of rock 'n' roll, pop and show music diverged. Though a stray Broadway hit might get radio airplay (Don't Cry for Me, Argentina), and a whiff of something like rock occasionally stirs the Great White Way (Rent), Broadway became a separate and self-contained musical domain, irrelevant to the most creative musicians of the rock generation...
...Doug Morris' recent career were a rock single, it could well be Shake, Rattle and Roll. Morris was purged from top-ranked Warner Music following a nasty 1995 corporate bloodbath that shook out top management. "It was unprofessional...and unclassy," says Morris of the event. Though rattled, he soon became chairman of Seagram's Universal Music Group. And now he's on a roll. He boosted Universal's market share to third place from fifth and tripled earnings to $72 million this fiscal year, making music one of the few bright spots in Seagram's media diversification...