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...wood lining of the heavy metal door and used railroad spikes in a vain attempt to gouge through the floor. They had removed their clothes to lessen the effect of the intense heat, also to no avail. Some had chewed their tongues during convulsions, spilling blood on their cast-off clothing...
Gone are the days when the Guard operated with cast-off equipment from the regular military. Guardsmen now drive the latest M1 Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles, while Guard pilots fly every type of Air Force plane save the top-secret F-19 Stealth fighter. The Texas Air Guard, for example, recently acquired $723.9 million worth of new equipment, including 21 F-16 fighters costing $22 million each...
...high-tech wonders are created in a surprisingly low-tech cluster of buildings in a suburban office park. A sign out front says THE KERNER COMPANY --a deception intended, company officials say, to keep away youngsters who used to rummage through the garbage looking for cast-off Darth Vaders and E.T.s. The ambiance is casual; blue jeans and running shoes are ubiquitous, and a family spirit prevails. "It's a group effort rather than a search for personal glory," says George Joblove, who joined ILM last year to help develop a computer-graphics department. "There's a nice sense...
Last week the new management team headed by Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Martin Davis, 56, announced a major streamlining program to rid the company of low-profit operations. Among the cast-off candidates: Arlington Park race track near Chicago and Roosevelt Raceway in New York, manufacturer E.W. Bliss, and Sega's video-game-making unit. The moves would save the company about $470 million in tax write offs, but produce a loss of $215 million this year...
...reptilian sadist Reinhold (Gottfried John). Franz's reward for innocently going with the gang on a heist one night is to be pushed by Reinhold from the van and have his right arm crushed under the wheel of an approaching car. Reinhold pushes other things on Franz: his cast-off women. Soon the one-armed man is a secondhand stud for a series of gross, silly and pathetic trollops. There are three exceptions: Lina (Elisabeth Trissenaar), gorgeous and sassy, whom Franz meets soon after his release from prison; Eva (Hanna Schygulla), a former mistress who is now an expensive...