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...study showed that the sum of Trans World's parts was worth more than its whole. While TWA has not earned a profit domestically in almost a decade, Trans World subsidiaries such as Hilton International hotels, the Spartan Food Systems restaurant chain, Century 21 real estate and the Canteen Corp. vending-machine business were valuable and making money. The airline had a loss of $93 million during the first quarter of 1983, more than wiping out the $20 million earned before taxes by Trans World's nonflying parts. Levy and the other dissidents argued that all the parts...
...minutes to get back to the barracks and my friends were glad to see me. As a matter of fact. I do not recall a time in all my life when I was so great a hero to so many people. We broke the ice into pieces, filled our canteen cups and then added water. For more than an hour, ten of us sat silently on our bunks in the sweltering heat, drinking that beautiful ice water...
...children seem quite different from the Khmer. Generally they are wilder and more independent, either because of their greater freedom in the camps or because of something characteristic. Argyle 4 used to be a storage depot for Hong Kong's armed forces. Now it looks like a teen-age canteen, the kids loitering under the fluorescent lights like teen-agers in any poor city neighborhood, their self-possession equally dopey and sinister...
...riderless stallion, the orange fire truck rolled slowly toward the cemetery in Panama City last week, bearing a flag-draped coffin that was topped by a distinctive canteen, bush hat and gun holster. At the grave, a 21-cannon salute boomed as the coffin was lowered amid a torrent of flowers. Thus did Panama bid farewell to its strongman, Omar Torrijos Herrera, who was killed when his plane crashed four days earlier...
Ultimately, Panama's new leader is expected to be decided by a power struggle in the National Guard hierarchy. General Florencia Florez, 47, a diligent, soft-spoken career officer who succeeded Torrijos as commander, artfully tried to bolster his position at the funeral when he called for the canteen that was riding on Torrijos' coffin and, his hand shaking slightly, drank from it. Said he into the microphone: "Let the drink inspire...