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Word: stabs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mass. Ave. church was holding a benefit dance for Salvadoran emigres when a fight developed between Parada and 22-year-old Marcus U. Reyes, according to police. Later that night. Reves was brought to Mount Auburn Hospital with a fatal stab wound to the chest, police said...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: Reyes Murder Suspect Surrenders to Police | 2/12/1989 | See Source »

...admit that what Schrager and Rubell got for this bundle is momentarily, at any rate, the least boring public building in Manhattan. Some of it works; some of it doesn't; that is what is interesting. The chairs are, perhaps, too lively. Not just the ones that stab you -- also the ones made of mahogany laminate that have two normal legs on the front but only one stainless-steel leg at the rear, so that anyone who tilts backward rolls over abruptly, heels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: An Ocean Cruise in Manhattan | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

...specialists. Underdog KKR won even though the firm's final bid of about $25 billion in cash and securities, or $109 a share, was a bit less than the $25.4 billion, or $112 a share, that Johnson and his handful of top RJR managers had offered as their last stab. (The largest previous deal was Chevron's $13.3 billion takeover of Gulf in 1984.) "It was destined to happen this way," said a source close to the bidding. "The board could not appear to favor management in a buyout." Members of the losing side felt that the board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 250,000,000,000 Buyout Barons : KKR outfox Ross Johnson's group | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...most satisfying stab of the day was when the teams beat Stanford in suspenseful matches. In the first meeting of West vs. East, tensions and expectations were high against the undefeated Stanford squads...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Columbia Downs Swordswomen, 15-1, Deals Terrible Blow to Harvard Hopes | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

Yale must use The Game as a sword. Stab and get revenge for Harvard's championship triumph last year...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: For Gridders, the Season Begins and Ends Today | 11/19/1988 | See Source »

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