Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They restrained themselves from saying they had finally caught the Unabomber. After 200 suspects, thousands of interviews, visits with clairvoyants, 20,000 calls to 800-701-BOMB, the agents were not about to rush to judgment. But when they finally, carefully entered the cabin, fearing booby traps, they found a whole bomb factory, including a partially built pipe bomb, chemicals, wire, books on bombmaking and hand-drawn diagrams. The cache even included components bearing, a source told TIME, the unique signature of the Unabomber. (Every bombmaker, experts say, develops a hallmark: he may loop wires in a certain...
Leading the Harvard rush was freshman Ivy Wang (6-0, 6-1), junior Gina Majmudar (6-4, 6-2), and sophomore Gabriela Hricko (6-1, 6-1). The three not only secured victories in the top three single positions, but they were also instrumental in two of Harvard's three doubles matches...
...strategy is presumably based on the assumption that, one, people in the television audience can actually tell which tuxedo was made by which shmattemeister, and, two, once they do, they're going to rush out to buy one just like it because the unemployed flamenco-dancer look is just what they've been striving...
...rush? Because both on Wall Street and on Main Street, slow growth means no growth. Competitors are quick to knock off new ideas, which underscores the importance of locking up the best locations quickly. The ability to establish a national presence brings with it buying power that can lower the cost of advertising, equipment and ingredients. That in turn creates cost advantages that can be used as a weapon against less efficient operators...
...definition, has to be posthumous. If the Virgin Mary had died surrounded by Chinese soup tureens and minor Hellenistic antiquities, instead of the wooden bench (workshop of St. Joseph, estimate 20 to 30 copper pieces) and the simple tin cup that presumably furnished her abode in Jerusalem, the rush for pious souvenirs would not have been greater...