Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...desperately seeking clothes, look no further than the Square. Between urban Outfitter, Structure and The Gap, you won't go naked this summer (unless, of course, you're into that). Frequent CitySports for athletic gear; they often offer spectacular sales on sneakers, t-shirts and rollerblades...
...those who took Frankel?s spectacular alleged swindle ?- certainly a Great Train Robbery for the bull-crazy '90s ?- to heart as a stirringly outsize, outlaw pursuit-of-happiness story, this news must be viewed as a disappointment. To them, Frankel is no supervillain, just a failed stockbroker and all-around schlub who had clawed and cheated his way into the American Dream: a cavernous maximum-security mansion in tony Greenwich, Conn., complete with a fully functional securities trading floor; limos pulling up at all hours, dropping off leggy "receptionists" Frankel had met on the Internet. His stuffy neighbors ?- many...
...Salon paid just 5 percent to San Francisco's W. R. Hambrecht. But here's the more important part. The mechanics are complicated, but common sense says that iVillage's offering price was set too cheap if it immediately quadrupled. Even though iVillage's first-day run-up was spectacular, most of that money went to the investment bank's big customers who were allocated apparently underpriced shares. In Salon's case, the offering price was determined by auction beforehand, ideally capturing money that traditional IPOs leave on the table. Hambrecht has tried the "OpenIPO" Dutch format only once before...
Every once in a while, Harvard fields an athletic team that excels on the national level. Sometimes that team is special because it overcame seemingly insurmountable odds with sheer will and determination. But sometimes a team is special not because of one spectacular moment but because it has consistently dominated its competition for the entire season--a team so far ahead of the pack that it seems almost surreal...
...Cabot's weight room is spectacular right now in large part due to his help," Negin says...