Word: busters
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...highly experienced commander. But a recently published book about the operation, written by respected US Army Times journalist Sean Naylor, has suggested the target was Al-Zawahiri, Osama Bin Laden's personal physician and al-Qaeda's second in command. The overall commander of the operation, Major General Franklin "Buster" Hagenbeck, recently told Time he believed the high-value target had been destroyed...
...revenues have risen from $2 billion in 1999 to $5 billion last year, nearly a quarter of total revenues. BAE now has almost as many employees (25,000) in the U.S. as in Britain.Ronald acknowledges that the special relationship between the U.S. and Britain is a door buster. When the Pentagon recently requested proposals for antibomb technology, BAE asked for and got permission from the British government to offer a classified product. The trust goes both ways: the Pentagon had no complaint when BAE announced last month that it was buying United Defense Industries, which makes the U.S. Army...
...once again resort to a tactic he had used after Texas Air won a battle for control of Continental Airlines. In 1983 Lorenzo took Continental into bankruptcy proceedings, which enabled the company to void union contracts and slash employee salaries. That maneuver earned Lorenzo a reputation as a union buster...
...comedy is Buster Keaton-- ish in its precision timing. Chow's swooping camera is as nimble, and as respectful of Hong Kong film tradition, as the veteran actors he has assembled. The film merrily flouts the laws of time and physics. Teeth fly upward in slo-mo; then a Road Runner--style chase zips by in superspeedy-mo. The Pig Sty denizens have the resilience of Warner Bros. cartoon characters: lips, throats, bosoms expand to gargantuan size, then snap back. Punctuating the mayhem are sound effects (mooing, clucking, cat mewls, toad croaks) worthy of a Spike Jones symphony...
...started to ask him, 'Hey, what are the things you're doing with Barry? He's an incredible player. I want to still be able to work out at that age and keep playing,'" Giambi testified, according to the Chronicle. "And that's how the conversation first started." Buster Olney, a baseball writer for ESPN the Magazine who has a vote in Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame elections, calls Giambi's court appearance the "Mount Everest of steroids and baseball testimony. Nothing else is going to come close...