Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this race and I guarantee that you'll feel good about yourself and get a tremendous natural rush that'll last longer than those ten shots of vodka you did last Friday night...
...terms of "drunken fit," "barnyard animals" and "liquors--lots of it." The behavior implied is in clear violation of College-wide policy. It cannot be condoned in any House event. But more seriously, it brings with it the worst nightmares of House Masters: the call at 4 a.m. to rush to Holyoke Center, because a young woman has choked in bed on her vomit and died; or a young man has fallen from a balcony after drinking excessive amounts of beer and is on life-support...
...years of collecting castoff companies at fire-sale prices and then trimming costs by paying close attention to detail. He started in 1986 by taking over Commercial Credit, a reject of computer-maker Control Data. It was not the job he wanted--Weill had been given the bum's rush when he offered himself as CEO of BankAmerica--but a spruced-up Commercial Credit gave Weill a springboard. And he sprang: he merged Commercial Credit with struggling Primerica in 1988, getting the Smith Barney brokerage with it. He bought Travelers insurance in two stages when that company was reeling from...
...that he had received "thousands" of letters about JonBenet, many of them from people who are "very sad and angry" that the killer or killers of the six-year-old have not been brought to justice. "I know people want closure," he said, "but I'm not going to rush to satisfy that understandable desire...
...Rush? More than nine months have passed since JonBenet's beaten and strangled corpse was found the day after Christmas; yet tabloid speculation about why Hunter hasn't brought charges in the case of the slain little queen of prepubescent beauty pageants hasn't let up. And being in a "rush" is one charge no one would lodge against District Attorney Hunter...