Word: yanking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...give to the chosen instructors. There's even strategizing on the art of asking. "Make sure you ask for a strong letter. You have to say strong," Elissa Hull, a counselor in Achieva's Cupertino center, insists to senior Will Chen. If the teacher demurs, she says, Chen should yank back the request rather than end up with lukewarm praise. Achieva keeps its student records in files that look like doctor's folders, with vitals--classes, test scores, deadlines and other information--regularly checked. Then there are the essays, which counselors help students conceptualize and write. And all this doesn...
...exiled a few blocks north to the Museum of Modern Art in 1975, when the Music Hall was in such a state of desuetude that at some performances less than 10% of the seats in the immense auditorium were filled. Hardy had a potent ally in his effort to yank the Davis painting back from MOMA. Jerry I. Speyer, the manager and co-owner of Rockefeller Center, is vice chairman of the museum's board...
...upside down in a kayak in San Francisco Bay, fighting panic. I'm not sure I can hold my breath much longer. I yank away at the tab that attaches a rubber spray skirt--and me--to the two-person boat, the bottom of whose hull is bobbing on the surface...
...even know if I can see anything. I've forgotten that I have an expert partner who would save me if I were in any real danger. I'm trapped inside a boat in strong currents, far from home--a reckless fool. Then I give another mighty yank, and the skirt pops off. I shoot to the surface, a flustered human cannonball...
...FREE RIDE The SEC recently forced several companies to yank bogus online offerings of "free" stock. The catch? The issuers were trying to bring traffic to their websites and get valuable personal information from the recipients. Web-WorksMarketing.com said its free stock was worth $38.40 a share, which beats the company's gross revenues of $26. Likewise, American Space Corp. distributed shares, although it had no offices, employees or contracts. The investing lesson? Free could equal worthless...