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...Sergeant!" he yelled at Platoon Sergeant Tom Abbott, his second-in-command. "They're getting close. We need to get out of here...
...than 1,800 workers last year and plans to keep hiring at a brisk pace. That includes everyone from marketing and manufacturing staff to people in finance, human resources and, of course, research science. This array of jobs pays anywhere from $30,000 to $300,000 a year. Likewise, Abbott Laboratories hopes to fill 5,000 new positions this year, including posts for sales reps who can drive product launches...
...only for the wealthy. If you can afford a lawn service and housecleaning, they say, a personal chef is likely to be within your budget. "This has made a real difference in our family life. It's a relief not to have to worry about dinner anymore," says Cindy Abbott, 39, an attorney for Motorola who is the mother of two. The Abbotts spend about $300 for 10 meals that they eat over the course of each month, supplemented by takeout meals and Cindy's cooking. Like many clients, she finds that household spending on food has declined since...
DIED. JACK HENRY ABBOTT, 58, philosophical criminal whose unsettling letters to Norman Mailer about inmate life were turned into a best-selling book, In the Belly of the Beast; a suicide, by hanging; in his cell in Alden, N.Y., near Buffalo. With Mailer's help, Abbott, serving time for armed robbery and killing an inmate, won parole and a research job in 1981. Six weeks later, he was back in jail after stabbing to death a New York City waiter. He wrote that prisoners "cannot be subdued. Only murdered...
...life had premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. DIED. MICK TUCKER, 54, drummer with leading 1970s British glam-rock band The Sweet, which had a string of hits with songs such as Fox on the Run and Blockbuster, of leukemia; in Welwyn Garden City, England. DIED. JACK HENRY ABBOTT, 58, philosophical U.S. criminal whose unsettling letters to Norman Mailer about prison life were turned into a best-selling book, In the Belly of the Beast, from suicide by hanging himself in his prison cell; in Alden, New York State. With Mailer's help Abbott, serving time for armed robbery...