Word: brother-in-law
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Good PC service and reliability are doubly important when you're working out of a small office or at home and your tech support staff is your brother-in-law. Hewlett-Packard's Vectra is a super machine, but it's the service that really makes the difference: you get a three-year warranty and software that enables technicians to dial in to your PC over a modem line to diagnose and fix problems. An optional networking kit lets you link PCs to share files or a printer. Configurations cost up to $3,264 for a 200-MHz Pentium system...
...didn't. In December 1993, two hours before the struggling firm's year-end board meeting convened, Lewis telephoned her brother-in-law Jean Fugett Jr., then chairman and chief executive officer. The message was short and simple: "Jean, I'm taking over." With more than 50% of the stock in her hands, Loida got what Loida wanted, which was a European snack-food and grocery business mired in debt. The smart money on Wall Street thought the inexperienced Lewis would surely flop...
Denis Reggie, Senator Kennedy's brother-in-law, played the Lord Snowdon role of official photographer. With the ceremony completed, the couple returned down the aisle together, and Reggie took the now famous picture of them descending the chapel's simple wooden steps, John kissing the hand of his beaming bride. They walked over to a nearby fence, and Bessette stood next to Kennedy with her arms around him. Then she felt a tug on her bouquet. A wild horse had stretched its neck over the fence and was nibbling the flowers...
...with the smarmy Rev. Elton (Alan Cumming). She also hopes to land handsome rake Frank Churchill (Trainspotting's Ewan McGregor) for herself. With other pretenders and poseurs intervening, it takes Emma the whole film to realize that she has been blind to the perfect match for herself: her brother-in-law, the kindly Mr. Knightly (Jeremy Northam...
DIED. LUIS MIGUEL DOMINGUIN, 69, bullfighter whose rivalry with toreador brother-in-law Antonio Ordonez was immortalized by Ernest Hemingway; following a stroke; in Sotogrande, Spain. His affairs with screen idols Ava Gardner and Lana Turner were chronicled in loving detail by gossip columnists...