Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women cagers exploded from a half-decade of cellar-dwelling to shock the Ivy League with a 20-7 overall mark and a share of the league title. Then-sophomores Sharon Hayes and Barb Keffer emerged as two of the top players in the league. With the addition of up-and-coming freshman Sarah Duncan, the Crimson's future looked vast...
That there will be other tough examples in the future seems certain. At a press conference last week, U.S. Attorney Giuliani announced that the latest shock wave was only the beginning of a "very long and substantial investigation" of Wall Street practices that would not be limited merely to insider trading...
...actual killings were done by Jay Smith, the school principal, who was sentenced to death and awaits execution. How Smith ever got to be an administrator of impressionable youth remains one of those mysteries of American public education. He fixed people with a cold, goatish stare and liked to shock. His opening remark to a teacher who had recently lost her husband: "As a young widow, perhaps you could tell me how you handle your sex life." When police searched Smith's house they found pornographic material, including books with titles like Her Four-Legged Lover. He claimed...
...narrative -- already 200 pages -- is in delicate negotiations with security experts because much of it came from secret intercepts and a new cache of computer data unearthed in the most cloistered chambers of the NSC as late as last week. The sad story is one of arrogance, deception, shock and cover-up in varying degrees...
again cause fear and shock on Wall Street...