Word: shocker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...firm's new cancer-therapy drug was imminent, there was a stampede to buy the company's stock. By Jan. 7, Bioscience's share price hit an all-time high of 85, before a 2-for-1 split at mid-month. But on Jan. 31 came a shocker: a Food and Drug Administration panel decided not to recommend approval of the new drug, known as Ethyol...
Tabulating the answers from a cross section of 4,000 women, the survey authors estimated that more than 12 million American women have been raped at least once in their life, but the true shocker is that 61% of rape victims were younger than 18 at the time of their attack. Three out of 10 had not yet reached their 11th birthday. In almost 80% of cases the victim knew her rapist...
They are not, however, quite ready for tonight's season-ending shocker: Peppermint Blunsten (Joe's daughter) has fallen in love with--you guessed it--the evil Tycoon...
...Waller's remarks. "Absolutely imbecilic," said another. Soldiers are not supposed to tell such secrets to the enemy. In truth, what Waller said should come as no surprise to anyone who has been tracking the progress of American deployment in the gulf. That he said it, however, was a shocker. Waller's indiscretion signaled to Saddam that the Rubicon may not be crossed on Jan. 15, thereby undercutting Washington's effort to scare him out of Kuwait without a fight...
...Saturday, those leased horses played like thoroughbreds in the men's shocker over Yale...