Word: tip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more than 20 hours, Giovanni Soldini had pushed due south, his face stung by frigid squalls and his 60-ft. sailboat pummeled by the ferocious waves of the southern Pacific, 1,900 miles west of the tip of South America. "I'm soaked and frozen," the 32-year-old Italian wrote in a Feb. 16 e-mail to his Milan-based racing team. Desperately trying to interpret computerized weather charts, he was also troubled. He was still 18 miles from the spot where a satellite tracking system said Isabelle Autissier, 42, his French rival in the Around Alone solo global...
...other nine men on the floor are exchanging gibes and handshakes around the tip-off circle, the Harvard men's basketball team's senior point guard stands 20 feet back at his own free-throw line, one fist raised...
...takes my hand with calm assurance and begins feeling for vibrations. The bottom section of my left palm yields results. "O.K., more hydration, more vitamin C," she reports. After a while, I press for a stock-market tip. She directs me to smartmoney.com...
...PENN doing a Coke commercial. "We're not in the advertising business; we're in the publicity business," notes PMK partner PAT KINGSLEY (the third PMK pooh-bah: LOIS SMITH). But by schmoozing with its new friends in the entertainment biz, says Dart, McCann-Erickson will be able to "tip off its clients to trends that are emerging"--in effect, a savvy little spy network at the heart of our cultural Zeitgeist. Synergy, baby, synergy...
Another example: Liebman happily raved about how great it is to find money. "I found $20. It was just sitting there." She looked toward the ground. "In the tip jar at Starbucks...