Word: shooted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Incoming freshmen Nick Gianuzzi, John Rabin and Fuad Ombargi plan to join the squad this week, while upperclassmen Nicholas Branca, Kyle Enright, Andy Freed, Eric Bentley, David Mandell and Andy Goldfarb--none of whom played last season--will also shoot to make the team during the preseason practice...
People were frightened, and not just about stocks. Said Eric Fessler, a loan officer at Kadilac Funding, a mortgage and personal-finance institution in Carle Place, N.Y.: "I got flooded with so many calls I could not work. Half wanted to know whether interest rates will now shoot to the heavens. Another half wanted to know if the depression was coming...
...fire and was rocked by at least one grenade explosion, Pinochet's driver managed to slam the car into reverse, whip around in a U-turn, and speed out of the circle of fire and back to El Melocoton. All but one carload of bodyguards stayed behind to shoot it out with the guerrillas. When the battle was over, five security men were dead and eleven wounded. Despite a widespread manhunt by army units and the paramilitary carabineros, all the attackers, whose number was estimated at between twelve and 40, slipped away...
...faithful viewers of the CBS show Murder, She Wrote. For 9 1/2 hours last week the network's 14 directors locked themselves away in 35th-floor chambers at the Manhattan headquarters building, which has come to be known as Black Rock. Their agenda amounted to nothing less than a shoot-out over the future of a communications giant that has been bludgeoned by takeover bids and internal dissension for much of the past 20 months...
...dramatic shoot-out at Black Rock brought an extraordinary denouement to one of the most convoluted, agonizing and, above all, public corporate power struggles in recent U.S. history. Wyman's departure was the climax of months of upheaval at CBS, caused in part by his efforts to elude a raft of corporate-takeover artists, ranging from North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms to Manhattan Arbitrager Ivan Boesky to Atlanta Broadcaster Ted Turner. The battle was also triggered by austerity and shrinking fortunes in the broadcast- television business, as No. 2 network CBS has struggled -- so far unsuccessfully -- to cope with losing...