Word: armes
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...understand what I'm trying to say?" demands John Francis Welch Jr. The embattled chairman of General Electric puts an arm around a visitor's shoulders and spreads out an improbable set of papers. One shows that GE, with 222,000 employees in 100 countries, has had only three criminal convictions in the 13 years that Welch has run the company. Another points out that the U.S. Justice Department, which has been hounding GE lately, has had 140 of its employees prosecuted for corruption or other on-the-job offenses just since 1992. Yet another shows that GE is headed...
...least some members of the ramidus clan were about 4 ft. tall, but that doesn't establish what the range in height was. In some African apes, males are considerably bigger than females, as they were in Lucy's species as well. Says White: "We do know the arm bones come from an individual that was larger than Lucy, but we don't know if it was male or female...
Such feelings seemed to matter little to the U.S. soldiers, who were preoccupied with the open-arm reception coming from the poor. "They know we're here to help," said Specialist Hugh Sullivan, manning his machine gun from the top of a humvee. In fact, he added ruefully, "they think we're here to solve all their problems...
...START II agreement reached last year. Clinton also boosted his Russian aid pledge to $1 billion. Other notable deals: U.S. intelligence agencies will now help their counterparts in Russia in tracking down plutonium smugglers, and Clinton managed to convince the burly Russian leader to turn down any future arm-sales contracts with Iran. That final deal was a notable coup, says TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister...
...member-nations within the week. Claes hasn't made the headlines in recent years, says TIME Brussels Bureau Chief Jay Branegan. But in the coming months his mettle will be seriously tested. "Bosnia poses a major threat to NATO unity," says Branegan. Western nations have threatened to arm Bosnian Muslims by October 15, after which the region could be the scene of an all-out war. But that crisis will be the beginning of his trial-by-fire. Next up are the Eastern Europeans who are clamoring to get into the Western alliance...