Word: throwing
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...teams appear to be emerging in the league that has looked like Penn and everyone else since 1993. Brown and Columbia, doormats not long ago, have picked themselves off the ground and are now knocking on the Quakers' door. Throw in defensive-minded Princeton, and the Ivy League has the makings of a battle roysle...
...Last year we didn't have a lot of options--we were just able to do fundamentals," Harvard coach Sue Caples said. "[This year] we have a lot of things to throw at teams. People have to work hard to get playing time...
...former lobbyist for the Securities Industry Association and an active fund raiser.) And he is pushing ahead with the most sweeping bank-deregulation package in history, the repeal of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, which forbids mergers between banks and securities firms. D'Amato's reform would throw open the doors to mergers between banks and companies from nonfinancial industries as well. Critics say that could lead to bank failures and federal bailouts. But the bill won't come to a vote this year. Some banking lobbyists believe this is because the promise of deregulation is such a powerful motivator...
...advertising is coming from the flaky side of corporate budgets: the "new media" departments of businesses anxious not to miss the Internet boat but still profoundly skeptical. If the ads don't generate product sales, they could quickly dry up. "A lot of advertisers lined up to throw money at this stuff because they were caught in the hysteria about the Web," says Karen Burka, an electronic-marketing analyst at media consultant SIMBA Information. "But now they want to know how you make money selling a $1.59 bottle of dish detergent on the World Wide Web." There may be better...
...that he will retire at the end of next year from the Senate, where he has spent a third of his 52 years, and that he is weighing the idea of making a bid for the White House as an independent candidate. That alone would have been enough to throw both political parties momentarily off balance. But when Bradley also revealed-almost offhandedly-that he had phoned Colin Powell and was trying to get in touch with Ross Perot, all sides were hit with the realization that they are facing a presidential race in which the prospect...