Word: threw
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...nation's securities-fraud suits are brought against California-based firms. One target was Centigram Communications Corp. of San Jose, which was sued after its stock dropped from $14 to $11 in late 1994. Lerach accused company officials of dumping stock nine months earlier. Although a judge threw out all but one charge, Centigram decided, after nearly a year of fighting, to settle for $1.5 million, a typical corporate approach. "We did an economic analysis," says president and CEO George Sollman. "I calculated that going into court and trying this would cost us between $750,000 and $1 million...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Wake up, Congress. Our policies are so misdirected, if you threw them at the ground, they would probably miss...
...threw everything together and we got downstairs and there's us and the Canadian team," Kirrane says. "We still [didn't] know what's going on. They put us all on the same bus, threw all our bags into a truck. Zingo, right to the airport. We got on a Royal Air Force plane. Everything was a big rush and [we] were wondering what's going...
...voters see it. The flip side of someone's being indecisive is that he is still searching for the answer. Voters see Clinton not as having waffled but as having heard their message. Clinton got his comeuppance in 1994. Then, just as he did in Arkansas after voters threw him out of office in 1980, he set out to prove, "I get it, I really get it now." Whether or not that is high or good character is hard to say, but it is penitence, shrewdness, and perseverance. And in the end, that may be character that's good enough...
...nice things about finally having him in the World Series, after 4,280 games as a very good player and an exceedingly decent manager, is that he brings a sense of both family and history to the Series. When shortstop Derek Jeter threw to first for the final out in the Yankees' A.L.C.S.-clinching victory over the Orioles in Baltimore on Oct. 13, he set off a love-in the likes of which is rarely seen in baseball. Torre openly wept as he embraced his equally teary coaches and players. Later, Torre expressed his love, over and over...