Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first set, 6-2, but in the second set. Sands began to tire, and his game slipped Farnsworth seized the momentum and in a tie-breaker, Farnsworth whipped Sands, 7-0, to take the set, 7-6. Then, even after going down, 4-1 in the third, Sands stayed in the match. Playing beautifully and attacking strongly at the net, Sands began taking the match away. It was Sands who took the tie-breaker point of the third set, winning...
...Business School, the future leaders of the business world are playing computer games. It's not Pac-Man, but instead students sell "shires," a mythical cross between a shirt and a tire, in a computer-simulated setting. Participants try to make as much fake money as possible, but the overall object is to learn business strategies and techniques...
...measure of Davies' gift with dialogue that Parlabane, so tire-some to his contemporaries, never disintegrates in print into a conglomeration, of stereotypes...
...investment banker, lost his job, squandered his inheritance, and developed a hole in the septum of his nose. Nevertheless, he says, "I felt powerful, in control. Cocaine is ego food. It feeds the ego like nothing I've ever seen in my life." Tony, the owner of a Denver tire-repair shop, used four grams a day. Says he: "I wanted to feel like a kingpin, the life of the party. Coke gave me all of this. You get to feeling you're bulletproof." (Bulletproof Tony, arrested for selling more than half a pound to an undercover...
...tends to tire easily. During the turmoil of congressional hearings in 1979, he nearly passed out in a Capitol Hill restaurant, though he makes light of the incident now. Says Mary lacocca: "Lee's been through hell. He didn't realize how bad it was at Chrysler, or he would never have gone...