Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part-speech, part-group therapy session ended, I felt part of something special. Members of the self-selected and the Epps-selected crowd were speechless; they too felt part of something special. The maestro was surrounded by a newly-converted following, some of whom were presumably going to rush home to their own high holiday rituals, telling of their brush with greatness...
...determined band of legislators was bent on getting an immigration bill passed despite the rapidly approaching Nov. 4 elections and the rush to adjournment. These lawmakers led conference talks which produced a compromise version of the bill...
Accountants and financial planners, whose busy season normally arrives near April 15, have an autumn rush on their hands. "The accountants and the H & R Blocks of this world must be rubbing their hands in glee," observes Raymond Kinzie, a senior vice president at Chicago's Lake View Bank. Indeed, tax advisers have been working overtime in a competition to develop the earliest and most detailed advice, and dozens of how-to books and pamphlets are already coming off the printing presses. Examples: the accounting firm Deloitte Haskins & Sells has published a free 96-page booklet, The Tax Revolution...
...quarterback I've ever had," some of them marvel that he is unchanged. "He's just old Vinny," says Gregg Rakoczy, the center. "He wants to show how good we are, not how good he is." Despite himself, Testaverde showed how good he was at eluding the Sooner pass rush, and how strong he is at 6 ft. 5 in. and 218 lbs. "Every quarterback strives for the perfect game," he says, "but he'll never get it." This was close enough...
...believe there is going to be a mad rush," Alex Rodriquez, chairman of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, told The Boston Globe...