Word: westwood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rooms were abuzz with a tip that NEI, a down-and-out commercial printing company, was about to be snapped up by a prosperous suitor. A feeding frenzy ensued, and in a few hours, NEI stock was driven up from 13 cents to more than $15. Meanwhile, back in Westwood, the two recent college grads sat at a UCLA computer cluster, gleefully calculating their take...
...wasn't so easy. Will, now a sixth-grader at Gainesville's Westwood Middle School, repeatedly called a local recycling contractor, asking the firm to donate can crushers, and a supermarket, looking for carts for can collection. Even then, his dad Tim, a chemist at UF, and his mom Betsy, who teaches at the university's speech and hearing clinic, had to tell the companies Will was serious...
...Westwood, Will, a student senator, has turned much of his attention to Florida's successful youth antismoking campaign, but he's stayed close to the recycling operation he started. Whenever he travels to Atlanta to see his grandparents, who don't recycle, he bags up their cans and hauls them back to his bins and crushers in Gainesville, but not before he tries to see an Atlanta Braves game. Will is a big baseball fan, and he would just love to keep Gainesville's schoolyards as green and clean as the field his idols play...
Then one night when he was house sitting in Westwood, he heard a noise in the kitchen and noticed an open window he could have sworn had been closed. Next thing you know, he's creeping around with a butcher knife in one hand and a cell phone in the other, his friend across town posing Freddy and Jason trivia questions and gleefully whispering "Kill, kill, kill...
...only tyro from outside the U.S. Appleby, who is 9th on the money list, is from Australia. At least four members of captain Seve Ballesteros' European Ryder Cup team are under 30: British Open runner-up Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland, 28; Lee Westwood of England, 24; Thomas Bjorn of Denmark, 26; and Padraig Harrington of Ireland, 25. "This youth thing is definitely catching on," says Kite...