Word: wowing
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...deal was to close, Allergan, based in Irvine, Calif., swooped in and outbid Medicis by $200 million and also had to fork over $90 million to Medicis as a termination fee. "At first it was a somewhat defensive move," admits Allergan CEO Pyott. "But then I had a 'wow' moment. It was like playing poker when you know you have a winning hand...
...What tends to scare people the most is the unexpected; the coffin in the middle of the room with a quivering lid catches your attention, while an actor lurks behind a draped archway off to the side. Though Hollywood-ish special affects and props can wow the crowd with goosebumps, it's the actors that turn the scream volume up. "People know the other stuff isn't real - the pop-up head or severed hand - but actors are real," explains Pickel. Plus, an actor can strike just at the right time to startle. "They know where the chickens hide," says...
...more closely resemble? Brown’s playing its best ball of the season, but if Penn wants to get back on the podium it can ill afford a second league loss. Prediction: Penn 24, Brown 20.CORNELL (2-4, 0-3) VS. NO. 18 PRINCETON (6-0, 3-0)Wow. You’re in a fairy tale land. So pretty here. Don’t even bother with elective decision-making. Just sit back on the wings of a kindly dragon and enjoy this rainbow-shaded scenario while eating clouds made of cotton candy.Princeton’s senior...
...effort that intense and that focused,” says senior coxswain Mark Adomanis, who is also a Crimson editor. “I really can’t think of a race that, even while it was happening, it was just an awareness that ‘Wow, we really did step it up from the level where we’d been earlier in the year.’ All nine of us completely made our minds up that we were going out there and we were going to get it done.”Get it done...
...fountains; they put them in the “take a penny, leave a penny” dish. But we don’t take the penny seriously as a unit of currency; when someone finds one on the ground, his or her first thought is, “Wow, good luck,” not, “Wow, I just made a profit.” According to that, though, the penny doesn’t actually hurt anyone. In fact, the only people who should really care about its fate are people who pay taxes...