Word: standout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Buried in Yahoo's stellar Wednesday-night earnings report -- sales of $41.2 million, up 36 percent from the beginning of the year; traffic of 115 million daily pageviews in June, up from 95 million in March; a 2-for-1 stock split -- was news that the search standout was raising $250 million by selling new stock to Softbank, which already owns nearly a third of the company. We could all use another $250 million, but what does Yahoo need...
Harvard had gotten the nation's attention, andso had Feaster. Soon after the Stanford win, shewas one of just 10 players in the country named aKodak All-American. She also earned ECAC Player ofthe Year honors, ahead of players from 60 otherschools, including UConn standout and NationalPlayer of the Year candidate Nykesha Sales...
...Gates had called the night before, offering what appeared to be real concessions, including easing restrictions on what PC makers could put on their opening screens. That hardly squared with Gates' longtime obstinance on such matters, but Klein, whose sensitivity to politics and diplomacy would have made him a standout at the State Department, was willing to go the extra mile just in case. The states, however, were determined to maintain strategic independence. So the participating lawyers--from New York, Iowa, Texas and Connecticut--left the room to have a conference call with their counterparts before accepting Klein's requested...
...standout performances do emerge. Roiff's comic ability, whether manifested as a fisherman's deadpan pragmatism or as the mesmerizingly over-the-top camp of the bawdy-house, continually brightens the stage. And Kate Taylor '00, who for the first half has nothing to do but to stand on stage as Antiochus's Daughter and crumple her face in disdain, emerges unexpectedly in the second half as a coldly terrifying Dionyza, the evil queen of Tarsus who plots the murder of our heroine Marina. (Taylor's final appearance, as the goddess Diana in an extraordinary strip tease scene, was equally...
...panel that includes Jim Brown, University of Georgia AD Vince Dooley; Minnesota Vikings coach Dennis Green, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, ESPN analyst Joe Morgan, San Diego Padres chairman John Moores, San Francisco 49ers president Carmen Policy and Georgetown University men's basketball coach John Thompson. St. John's basketball standout Felipe Lopez is the only Hispanic, a fact that had some groups already screaming "token" a day early...