Word: tore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ecstatic, I tore down the poster so as to limit my competition for this once-in-a-lifetime shot. Surely scores of other healthy males in the Harvard Square area were, at this very moment, burning the Cambridge telephone lines with calls to this Amy person...
Trump built his empire on rising land values. New York City was flirting with bankruptcy in 1976, when, at 30, Trump and hotel magnate Jay Pritzker bought the run-down Commodore Hotel at Grand Central Terminal for $10 million. The partners tore down the Commodore and built the Grand Hyatt luxury hotel in its place. The city recovered, and the hotel's value (current estimate: $70 million) soared with it. Borrowing against his stake in the Hyatt, Trump parlayed his first success into more and more prime real estate...
...times it is an uneasy tension. Tempering Romano's success has been a trail of controversy at PBHA, in which political division tore apart an executive board--and Romano's administration. Some of his ideological opponents question Romano's ability to accept error, to justify his moral conviction against intellectual opposition. Yet friend and foe agree that Romano has grown used to placing integrity over diplomacy...
...Norma Corona Sapienz, 38, president of the State Commission for the Defense of Human Rights in Culiacan, on Mexico's Pacific Coast, was driving home from work when three men in a pickup blocked her path. She tried to flee on foot. Suddenly gunfire rang out, and five bullets tore through the prominent attorney's back, killing her instantly...
...barge loaded with 4.2 million gal. of home-heating oil was pulling away from a terminal near New York harbor last week when two huge explosions tore gaping holes in the hull. Nearly 200,000 gal. of fuel poured into the Arthur Kill, a narrow waterway between Staten Island and New Jersey. For the fourth time this year, a major spill threatened birds, turtles and other wildlife that dwell in the fragile wetlands...