Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spectacular lassitude and office absenteeism" prevail in the Federal Trade Commission, a group of Harvard and Yale law students charged in a 185-page report released yesterday...
Santa Barbara, getting a lot of help from its home town referees, won the tournament with a two point decision over highly-regarded Texas Christian University the next night. T.C.U. had made the finals with a spectacular second half rally, overcoming a 17 point Loyola lead to win on Bill Swanson's last second layup...
Fourteen seconds remained. Harrison hoped to isolate one of the big men under the basket, but Harvard had trouble putting the play into operation and finally, Gustavson, who had just made a spectacular save to keep the ball in play threw up a 20 footer from the top of the key. It hit the rim and time ran out before the Crimson could get the ball up again...
Last week violence came to Lebanon with a vengeance. In perhaps the single most audacious military exploit in their already spectacular history, Israeli forces swept down in helicopters on Beirut's busy international airport, through which thousands of Arab and Western tourists and businessmen pass each day. In 45 minutes, the attackers wreaked an Israeli-estimated $100 million in damage. A dozen Lebanese civilian planes were destroyed or heavily damaged, hangars and fuel dumps set afire, all apparently without loss of life to either side. It was a swift, surgical and devastating raid, carried out in the most unlikely...
...fund by investors wanting to turn their shares in for cash, and got unprecedented permission from the Securities and Exchange Commission to shut down for an "indefinite" period. With that, some 3,000 shareholders were locked into the fund. Though Mates' fund is a fairly small, if certainly spectacular member of the U.S. mutual-fund business (total assets: $55 billion), his travail is likely to make investors just a bit more skeptical about some forms of investment...