Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...34th-floor trading room of the Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) brokerage firm on Wall Street, arriving traders are startled by the presence of uniformed security guards. Corporate officials, deluged by cabled sell orders, know a rough day is ahead: the guards are there to protect traders from any violent clients. The New York Stock Exchange is not yet open, but already some of the firm's brokers are perspiring at their telephone consoles, staring at banked arrays of 200 blinking buttons. Tension mounts as Dudley Eppel, a managing director, delivers a grim pep talk: "Well, here...
...Tiger defense was unusually physical--almost dirty, according to a few Harvard players. Three yellow cards and a pair of penalties attest to Princeton's rough style. More Crimson booters hit the ground than in any other game this season...
...such is the case. From the Snowbelt to the Sunbelt, an army of would-be Tarzans and Sheenas, cowboys and cowgirls are riding high in the saddle in their brawny and boxy four-wheelers. Once the choice of rough-riding macho men who used them for off-road hunting and fishing expeditions, jeeps are now favored by suburban squires, teenagers, retirees and women of all ages. Most are using the vehicles to explore the well-paved and not-so-wide-open spaces of the nation's cities and suburbs. "They're easy to spot in a parking lot," notes Phoebe...
...Teevens is a good guy, trying to bring back respectability to a once powerful team. The going has been rough. Harvard made it rougher...
Over the past two weeks, of course, pro football was not at its best. Nine- tenths of the regular players remained on strike for a principle -- free agency, or possibly a larger dignity -- while the richest few soldiered on in ! the interest of their annuities. Playing rough this time, the owners filled out their rosters with the ready surplus of football majors still nursing old college dreams on loading docks and in convenience stores. (How many of them there are standing by!) Included were a prisoner or two, along with a couple of prison guards for competitive balance, but only...