Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this confusion could mean a couple of things: (1) this year's season is more balanced than ever; (2) these polls don't mean anything; or (3) college hockey fans should wait until the official NCAA coaches' poll comes out next week to get the real scoop...
...savvy fund managers actually came out ahead. The Oppenheimer Ninety- Ten fund rose nearly 8% in the last two weeks of October, largely because it invested in put options, which appreciate when stock prices drop. When the market started to recover, many fund managers began to scoop up bargains. Neff's Windsor Fund, for example, bought $800 million worth of stocks. "When everyone is panicking and stock values are depressed, of such circumstances are opportunities born," he says. "We are buying aggressively, and we will continue...
Could this be the same Glenn Close who scared the lust right out of men's loins as Fatal Attraction's murderously obsessive Other Woman, the one in the wild curls and sexy scoop-front blouse whom a supermarket tabloid calls the "Most Hated Woman in America"? Yes and no. In her TV film, Stones for Ibarra, about an American couple who move to rural Mexico, Close, 40, returns to playing the sort of classy and controlled heroine that won her Academy Award nominations for three of her first four films, The World According to Garp, The Big Chill...
...haven't already seen Harvey, here's the scoop: Elwood, who lives with his goofy socialite sister, Veta Louise, and sourfaced niece, Myrtle Mae, is convinced that his best friend is a 6-foot-tall white rabbit named Harvey. Well, gee, folks, the only problem is that no one else can see Harvey, and Veta and Myrtle think poor Elwood's gone a little soft upstairs, so they take him to see a couple of wacky psychiatrists, Drs. Sanderson and Chumley, and that's when the hysterical antics begin...
When a reporter and photographer from Stern, the West German mass-circulation weekly, arrived at Room 317 in Geneva's Beau-Rivage Hotel last week for an interview with Politician Uwe Barschel, they got a bigger scoop than they bargained for. The journalists found Barschel, 43, who had recently resigned as minister-president of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, sitting in the bathtub, clothed, upright and very much dead...