Word: shorting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...employed more caution in their approach to following this team. Perhaps we should not have allowed ourselves to get carried away with enthusiasm, so that we might never have been so greatly disappointed. Likely, we were foolish to not temper our passions that we might avoid the extremes of short-lived highs and devastating lows that mark the passage of each Boston summer...
This guy, in short, was asking to be hated, and sports fans were more than happy to accommodate him. And so, with the visit of the Braves to Fenway last July, it occurred to me and a friend that there was no better way to spend a warm summer evening than to go see (boo, scoff, deride, etc.) John Rocker. The event, we hoped, would be memorable; but it was so much more than that...
...said he lived in Watertown with his friends over the summer. He tried to get his short stories and fiction published, but now he is interested in a consulting job where he says he hopes to use his English tutoring skills...
...short, the next two weeks afford Harvard a clear opportunity to shape its destiny for the season. If the Crimson can win all of its games, there is a good chance we will write of these weeks as the launching pad of the Ivy Champions...
...very costly poker game. It's also a safe bet, given the tenor of the military debate thus far in this election year, that the amount of money the nation will allocate for the military in the coming years is going to be more than Clinton has proposed, but short of Jones' bid. And that could lead to a profoundly bizarre outcome. "The annual defense budget could be back to its Cold War average of $320 billion early in the next century," Korb says. "In essence, this nation would have a Cold War budget without a Cold...