Word: splits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Politicos who had expected a simple partisan split in the Cambridge City Council's decision on renewing City Manager Robert W. Healy's contract must be in shock...
...position is that no city manager should have a contract, according to CCA President R. Philip Dowds. The split was significant because the organization's platform dictates that its members must act in consensus on the issue of the city manager...
...each quarter-point gain on a 1,000-share bet. But "riding a wave" is not so easy: a stock can blip upward, enticing a small trader to buy it, and then come tumbling down. "Oh my God!" cries a fortysomething beautician as she loses $250 in a split-second transaction involving Genzyme, a biotechnology firm. "This has been the longest trade of my life...
...forest turns into a metaphor of human loss and survival. In the Marlborough show are four bronzes, each 10 ft. to 12 ft. high, called Hand-Like Trees, whose vertical trunks do resemble arms: their looming profiles recall Rodin's standing Balzac, and their vigorous modeling around a split core provokes a distant memory of Matisse's bronze Backs...
Kevorkian (who is not religious): So it's even. Three to three. You're split even...