Word: snappingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harvard men’s basketball team looks to get back on a winning track this weekend when it hosts Princeton tonight and Penn tomorrow night at Lavietes Pavilion. The Crimson looks to regroup and snap a seven-game losing streak against two teams also in the bottom half of the Ivy standings and with less than stellar road records...
...bonds fall into the laps of yet another culpable party: hedge funds. The incentive structure of hedge funds depends on maximizing return each year—rather than lowering the riskiness of its portfolio or pursuing long-term growth, or even solvency. Thus, in many cases these funds snap up the purportedly AAA securities, leveraging their positions skyward, and happily taking high yields...
...lecture hall watching a documentary for my history class about British human rights abuses in colonial Kenya, I was struck by a familiar feeling of hopelessness. I saw myself and my peers leaving our neon green seats of Science Center E, knowing that each of us would snap back into our lives at Harvard, complete with dining-hall menus and shuttle schedules, and leave the somber thoughts of detention camps behind...
...Gazprom's decisions in the marketplace are often tied to Kremlin concerns, and there could be several political and economic reasons behind the new pressure on Ukraine. Russia is unhappy at the restoration to power of Yuschenko's pro-NATO coalition following last year's snap legislative election. It is also irked by Ukraine's imminent accession to World Trade Organization membership, which would improve Kiev's ability to stand up to Russian blackmail by giving it the means to block Russia's own, coveted but much postponed entry into the organization...
...becomes the stubborn old-man pause. If Cube and Chuck D were to get together again in 2008, the result would not be “Burn Hollywood Burn” or “Endangered Species” but “Darn You Youngsters and Your Silly Snap Dances and Video Games.” “Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It” doesn’t come close to his thematically similar 1990 song “The Product,” but this song and its accompanying video are iconoclastic and ambitious enough...