Word: grabbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...athleticism. Athleticism? Yeah, that's not Larry's forte, but there's that unforgettable play in the '81 Championship Series against the Rockets when he threw up a shot, ran to grab the rebound along the baseline, then shot the ball lefty to avoid hitting the backboard as he fell out of bounds--all in one motion. "Greatest play I ever saw," Red Auerbach said...
...fouled out of his first two games, playing a total of 31 minutes in those two contests. His best game was his performance against New Hampshire, when he came off the bench to score 15 points and grab eight rebounds in only 14 minutes...
...Crimson (10-0 overall, 8-0 ECAC, 6-0 Ivy League) snoozed through the three regulation periods, allowing UNH to grab the lead twice, and just barely sneaking into overtime...
...VLDL boats unload their triglycerides into body tissues, the carriers get progressively smaller, denser and proportionately more cholesterol-rich, ultimately becoming particles of LDL. The LDLs are then pulled out of the bloodstream by special protein receptors on the surface of cells. "These receptors reach out and grab cholesterol like a first baseman catching a ball thrown by a shortstop," says Dr. Michael Brown of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, who, with his colleague Dr. Joseph Goldstein, won a Nobel Prize in 1985 for discovering LDL receptors. What happens to excess LDLs that are not taken...
Whoever wins the grab for RJR, a highly leveraged takeover could add more debt to the U.S. economy than any previous business deal. All told, corporate debt has climbed from some $965 billion in 1982 to $1.8 trillion this year, a rise from 32% to 37% of U.S. gross national product. LBOs can be especially worrisome of borrowing, because they replace virtually all of a company's equity with IOUs that must be repaid. A sudden downturn can thus put a firm heavily in hock out of business. "High leverage is unsafe, not just for a company...