Word: tucks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last weekend's nip-and-tuck contest against top-ranked Princeton (7-1, 5-0 Ivy), Penn (5-3, 3-2 Ivy) reached into their bag of tricks and pulled out the old "Lonesome End" play...
...case, the company that once bestrode the world now has trouble paying its bills. "We wasted too much time and money, and we're finally down to the point where it's nip and tuck," says a senior GM executive. "To me, the sad part is, Couldn't we have done it any other way?" Apparently not. But besides cutting costs, GM must now focus its attention on something the company has too often seemed to forget: how to build cars, trucks and vans that more people are happy to pay money...
None of this matters, because all of it works. Rush has taken to the medium in no time flat. At a svelte 270, his friendly, full-moon face piked on a Pillsbury Doughboy frame, he looks like a defrocked Friar Tuck. More important, he has underlined another aspect of his personality: that of class clown. He woos the camera like an avid freshman on a fluke date with the senior prom queen. He guffaws, he blusters, he bats his eyes, he makes kissy- face. He will do anything to keep you watching...
Each day is packed with trips and activities for alumni kids. Briefer said parents and children share breakfast but separate for the rest of the day. "When the parents come home at night, I guess they tuck them in," she said...
APRIL 11--It was a showdown at the Ohiri Corral as first-ranked Harvard took on second-ranked Maryland. In a nip-and-tuck match, the Crimson squeaked by with a 7-5 triumph...