Word: presto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Zoller] did a great job shielding the puckand he kind of flipped it up," Scorsune said."Nobody knew where it was, and suddenly Presto hadto make a great save. [Cummings], however, hit thenet hard...
...Presto played very well tonight," HarvardCoach Ronn Tomassoni said. "He kept us in the gamein the second while we watched a bit on defense...
...colorful and witty: Isn't this what the world has always wanted in a tape dispenser? Hannibal comes in bright colors and oh-so-1998 translucent plastic. He sits on your desk looking intimidatingly like his eponym, the guy that almost conquered Rome, until you need tape and then presto: as you fold his trunk out, he induces a mid-boring-office-chore smile. Only one flaw: Who pays $60 for a tape dispenser...
...what is called a foreign sales corporation. Companies can form FSCs in 32 countries designated by Congress--among them Jamaica and Barbados--or in a U.S. possession like the Virgin Islands. The company then funnels its exports (or, more accurately, the paperwork for its exports) through its offshore FSC. Presto: no federal income taxes on a portion of those export profits...
...life, you had to keep those studies up," Bassett says. "If you dropped to C's, no cheerleading, no community theater! I got the message." On the advice of a director in a summer-activities program, she was spurred to dream big and apply to the top schools. Presto, she was at Yale. "And who knew! There were people like...