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...most visible dreamers, the ones who appear on ESPN riding sky-high bonuses and brand new cars, the Big League Dream is symbolized by the glitz that comes with...
...went off the air early in the week, it announced that government forces had foiled the attempted coup and maintained, "the situation in the capital is calm." That, quite obviously, was not true. Though the fighting faltered occasionally, it continued throughout the week. Eyewitnesses spoke of "deafening blasts" and "sky-high balls of flame" in the port. On Thursday, a Western diplomat in San'a, the capital of neighboring North Yemen, reported that gunfire and rocket exchanges had continued in Aden through the day, adding that the combatants were using tanks, artillery and even jet fighters. Other reports told...
...when owning seems a sure way to riches? On closer view, he just may be on to something. The Choes sold their tiny ranch in Sacramento, Calif., for $369,000, or nearly twice what they had paid three years earlier. But rather than plow his money back into a sky-high market in which people were bandying about the word bubble, Choe rented a bigger house in a better neighborhood--at a monthly expense similar to his old mortgage and for less than half of what it would take to buy the new place...
...local problem like the Big Dig demands a quick, permanent resolution. But owing to the project’s already sky-high cost overruns, we’re betting that you want some lower priced options. Here are all the HUBRIS-approved resource-deployment schemes that we can offer you, along with our suggested compensations...
...regional semifinal, two years of heartache were 20 minutes from erasure. The 4-3 overtime heartbreaker at Maine’s hands in 2002; the 6-4 third-period meltdown against Boston University 12 months later; a season that had failed to live up to its sky-high expectations prior to an unexpected miracle run to the ECAC title—all of it would be forgotten if the Crimson could only hold...