Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been more than 50 ft. high. If that's the case, Knox should win the K2 Big Wave Challenge, which at the end of this month will award a $50,000 prize to the surfer who caught the biggest wave of the season. And if he wins, he can thank Sean Collins, the sport's foremost practitioner of the science of surfcasting. Because of Collins and other surfseers, California's big-wave riders aren't wasting time chasing pikers anymore. They're hitching rides on waves the size of small apartment buildings...
...great bull market has created a lot of experts like the Gardners, the Beardstown ladies and Seto. But the attraction of stocks--even if overhyped--has also transformed many just plain folks into sophisticated, independent investors. Thank the Beardstown ladies, for example, for the explosive growth in investment clubs, which have doubled in the past three years to 36,000, and are forming at the rate of 40 or so a day. Kenneth Janke, president of the National Association of Investors Corp., says the average club starts with 15 members, only one of whom has any investing experience. But after...
...capstone to an already well-rounded program, its melody passed from woodwinds to strings, undulating through major and minor keys while the timpani underscored the excitement in the audience. This time there were rounds of bravos from the listeners for the orchestra and its beaming conductor, who repeatedly mouthed "thank you" to the appreciative crowd of concert-goers...
What I think is that this single paper is not going to kill anything or anyone. I plan to remain happily at Harvard, and failing to submit this paper will not condemn me to being a babbling bag lady in the Square who never finished Harvard. But thank you for your concern...
...written in stone in the annals of Harvard athletics, the senior has played her last game in a Crimson uniform. It would be an understatement to say that we're going to miss having the soft-spoken, modest superstar tearing up our basketball courts and every record in sight. Thank you, Allison, for giving us something else to be proud of besides Nobel laureates and Rhode Scholars...