Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knack for cultivating clients. In addition, he had a particular gift for obtaining information about impending hostile merger bids and then persuading takeover targets to hire his firm for their defense. According to federal law-enforcement officials, Levine also used his expertise for a less innocent pursuit: buying stock in companies that he knew were about to be acquired, and then selling the shares at a profit after a takeover bid sent the prices sky-high...
...their faces. When the players got tired of hitting one another they sort of did a slow dance on the ice and the crowd got real quiet and then they started slugging each other in the face again and the roar of the crowd welled up like a stock car engine at the Firecracker 500: rrroooAAARRRR! the crowd said. Just like that: rrroooAAARRR! Then the players were thrown in the penalty box and the camera showed them spitting up blood and looking like Hello-I-Eat-Reinforced-Steel-Bolts-For-Breakfast. It was actually a pretty entertaining fight...
When SASC five weeks ago erected the structures in protest of Harvard's owning stock in companies that do business in South Africa, the University stated that for the time being it had "no plans to do anything about the situation." But yesterday, Spence, who did not speak on behalf of the faculty, requested that SASC and the Conservative Club both remove the structures they had built...
...Chilean regimes, and many have been active in organizations like Amnesty International, the Hillel's Committee on Oppressed Jewry, and Students Supporting Solidarity. In any event, if Harvard divested from companies that do business in South Africa they would, by the same gesture, divest of all of their stock in companies that are in the Soviet Union and Chile. They are the same companies...
...unfortunate name that suggests the animal is at least part zebra and might summon images of black-and-white- striped steaks. Instead, this haughty-looking animal is a variety of humpbacked cattle native to India and Brazil that is crossbred with fatter and more flavorful bovine strains. Zebu breeding stock is raised by Liborio Hinojosa of H&H Meat Products in Mercedes, Texas, and is sold to ranchers from Florida and California. Zebu, which is now being tested for fat and calorie count at Texas A&M University, was the least acceptable of the beefs tasted. Both the meat...