Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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COAT Washed in Treseme shampoo; sprayed with water, hair spray and cornstarch (to whiten it up); conditioned to help pesky split ends; and fluffed up during judging...
...Warren Buffett left billions of dollars on the table by never splitting the stock of his company? It sure seems that way. In the past few weeks, dozens of firms from Internet darling eBay to Xerox to Microsoft have announced splits and watched their stocks soar. Last week athletic-shoe company K-Swiss joined the fun by announcing healthy earnings and a 2-for-1 split. Its shares jumped 23%. To the same point, when Cisco Systems on Feb. 2 posted earnings that beat Wall Street estimates but failed to declare an expected stock split, its shares dropped...
Will Saving Private Ryan split Best Picture votes with The Thin Red Line, leaving the race open for Shakespeare in Love or Life is Beautiful? Will the Academy give Tom Hanks another undeserved Oscar because they refuse to credit Ian McKellan for his portrayal of a gay film director? (the Academy refuses to acknowledge gay actors in gay roles--only straight actors who feign gayness get nominated. Witness the fact they passed over Rupert Everett in My Best Friend's Wedding for Greg Kinnear in As Good As It Gets...
...crudely, a lute looks some-thing like a small, pregnant guitar. It is has a body like a pear split in half made of between nine and 50 hardwood ribs. Its short, broad neck is fretted like a guitar but ends in a long and sharply angled pegbox. It is difficult to say exactly how many strings a lute has. The strings are divided into "courses," which are either a pair of strings played together or a single string, and different kinds of lutes from different periods had different numbers of courses. This is one of the most interesting things...
...mile relay. Running anchor, Ciollo got the baton two seconds after the Princeton anchor but ate up so much ground that the two were neck-and-neck at the finish. Based on the film, he said, he made up 1.7 seconds and ran a 400-meter split of 46.7 seconds. To put that in perspective, the 400-meter went to Princeton's John Mack in 48.3 seconds, although Ciollo had a moving start...