Word: stings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Calagione's power play goal (the first of the season for the Crimson) scarcely softened the sting of the 6-2 loss, Harvard took heart in the toughness of its opponent and in its own strong play...
...year-old Vancouver student posted a question about the rock singer Sting to which she knew the answer, so she posted the response. He sent her an e-mail and the two started sending messages back and forth...
...hopelessly deadlocked--after only five hours of actual deliberation. It seems that one of the jurors had a plane to catch to South Africa on Friday, with a nonrefundable ticket. King, 64, who has survived a 1985 tax-evasion case, three grand jury probes and an fbi sting, had wriggled off the hook again, possibly because of airline pricing policies. "The champion will retain his title on a draw," declared King spokesman Mike Marley...
...HEAR U.S. PROSECUTORS TELL IT, the stunts that Japan's Daiwa Bank used to conceal the nefarious conduct of its Manhattan office might have come from The Sting. The end result, however, was more akin to the farcical Dumb and Dumber. Among the flagrant ruses employed by Daiwa, prosecutors said, was disguising a downtown trading floor as a nondescript storage room during audits by Federal Reserve regulators. But no sooner had the Feds left than the traders reappeared--led by Toshihide Iguchi. It was his dual role as chief bond trader and bookkeeper that ultimately brought the bank to grief...
...also was charged with assault after grabbing the hair of Joseph Ligier, who DeNiro claims was verbally abusive outside a Manhattan bar last month. When Ligier offered to drop the charges for $300,000, DeNiro's lawyers contacted the office of the Manhattan district attorney, which set up a sting that could result in extortion charges against the cameraman...