Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...replacement players made the strike fun for us. For one spectacular game, Timmy Smith made us forget John Riggins. And, of course, we won the Super Bowl...
...Voyager spacecraft were launched toward the outer reaches of the solar system. In addition to providing spectacular photographs of Jupiter and its moons, the Voyager spacecraft greatly expanded scientists' knowledge of the outer planets. Voyager 2 actually discovered a series of rings around Uranus...
...also writes about the forgotten players. While he may praise Kerr for his courage to have a spectacular season even after his father's tragic death in Lebanon, Feinstein devotes a good portion of the book to Walter Lambiotte, the former North Carolina State player who transfered to North-western and had to sit out a year...
Some deals have fallen short of their fanfare. KKR hailed the purchase of Beatrice as the "deal of the century," but wound up getting stuck with businesses that have not yet found buyers. "Beatrice was overadvertised as a spectacular deal when it was really just a good one," said one investor. "Everybody's making money; they're just not making as much money as they thought they would, or as fast as they could...
...fight for RJR Nabisco, that seems to have happened in spectacular fashion. No matter how the battle turns out, the unseemly scramble for riches has, for the moment at least, given overreaching a bad name. In the end, the RJR brouhaha may turn out to be a useful testing of the limits: of greed, of debt, of dealmaking. The resulting outcry may prove an effective regulating device. "In its own way, the deal has been typically American, where nothing is in moderation, including the enormous selfishness of management," notes James Bere, chairman of Borg-Warner. "It's touched a nerve...