Word: strike
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...highlight the values that connect us rather than the differences that divide us. To conceptualize these incidents as isolated events targeting specific groups is to deny the fact that we are all connected as a student body and as a community. Whether these incidents of ignorance and racial discrimination strike far away or close to home, we are all affected...
...welcome conclusion to a less than ideal half by Harvard, which had 12 turnovers and five ground balls to Brown’s three and 14, respectively. The Harvard comeback attempt continued into the second period, as the Crimson scored twice, punctuated by Martin’s eight-meter strike, to make it a one-goal game after two minutes of play. But Harvard would be unable to even things up. After a Bear goal pushed the advantage back to 8-6, Martin returned with a free-position score at 8:10. Nunn’s final tally a minute...
...about fine wine and French films to impassioned rants on his fierce, if somewhat contradictory allegiances to the Boston Red Sox and New York Giants. Verena plays his quieter counterpart, welcoming freshmen like sheep into the fold and secretly accumulating information about everyone in the house so she can strike up conversation at the drop...
...second point is that a lasered-in President is an antidote to the flightiness and indiscipline endemic to both Washington and Wall Street. Fixing one problem at a time may strike Obama as mere gum-chewing. But in modern-day Washington, one is a very high number. The reason so many people were left slack-jawed by the Obama budget was not that they disagreed with his premise that health-care costs are out of control or that energy independence is desirable or that better schools are important to the future of the economy. It was the real-world knowledge...
...further cover-up the fact that I had not executed trades on behalf of my investment advisory clients, I knowingly caused false trading confirmations and client account statements that reflected the bogus transactions and positions to be created and sent to clients purportedly involved in the split strike conversion strategy, as well as other individual clients I defrauded who believed they had invested in securities through me. The clients receiving trade confirmations and account statements had no way of knowing by reviewing these documents that I had never engaged in the transactions represented on the statements and confirmations. I knew...