Word: kreuger
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...other day in the dining hall I saw an animal--an overgrown, grotesque beast covered with tangled dark hair, sharp teeth dripping with saliva and long brittle nails evocative of Freddie Kreuger. As I watched him prowl around the dining hall, a hollow hungry look on his face (he must have forgotten his ID card), I wondered why no one else noticed him. Deciding to ignore his foreboding presence, I swiped my card, filled my plate full of chicken fingers and sat down, determined to read my newspaper in peace...
...could go on the offensive. Certainly, stories about Dole's Aqua-Leisure contributions by way of Hong Kong are the moral equivalent of Al Gore's dubious, vegetarian fund raiser at the Buddhist temple. The word gotcha isn't glued to the word journalism for nothing. Freddy Kreuger came back enough times; so could the hatchet...
...limbo. Said Broker Sven Hagströmer: "It's a scandal. You can't get your money, and you can't get your stocks." Nothing so disastrous had happened to the exchange since it shut down during a financial panic in 1932 after Match King Ivar Kreuger went bankrupt...
...Sweden; of a viral infection; in Djurgården, Sweden. Part of the third generation of Wallenberg bankers who have been synonymous with Swedish business for more than a century, Marcus and his brother Jacob (who died two years ago) rebuilt Sweden's industrial strength after the Kreuger crash in 1932. Eventually taking control of such multinational giants as Electrolux, L.M. Ericsson and Saab-Scania, Wallenberg also helped to establish the Scandinavian Airlines System in 1946 and controlled companies that employed one of every eight working Swedes. A national tennis champion as a young man, he shunned ostentation...
After third baseman Mike Kreuger popped to Gaylord Lyman at third, Brown walked right fielder Jake Hart on a pitch that didn't miss by much, scoring a run. When the count went to 2-0 on the next batter, Tom Snarsky, Crimson Coach Alex Nahigian had seen enough...