Word: caterpillars
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...unlikely to make an outright political statement. Indeed, she hardly seems interested in making a fashion statement (though she lifts the hem of her brown slacks to show a stocking-free leg: Women Against Panty Hose, Unite!). Before 9/11 the First Lady was happiest reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar to kindergartners. She is no co-President but has become a part-time surrogate for her husband, appearing on 60 Minutes, three times with Larry King, addressing the National Press Club and giving the radio address on Nov. 17, while continuing to work hard for education. Kennedy says she's devoted...
...hand down a 200-ft. line before they are emptied in piles in front of an investigator, who sifts through them. The workers will do this for 10- and 12- and 18-hour shifts, kneeling and using their hands to dig, even though they stand next to the Caterpillar 345 Excavator, a $1.5 million, 185,000-lb. behemoth that can reach 105 ft. into...
...looking for help sounding out "E-I-E-I-O" b) trying to win voters for George P. c) having the hardest workday of his term d) reading from The Hungry Caterpillar...
...apologies. "You can't compete with a despot on a soapbox," he notes. "The best thing is to make him ludicrous." And now he may be seeing more of himself in the wacky show-biz satire he wrote more than 30 years ago. "It's the story of a caterpillar who becomes a butterfly--that's Leo Bloom," says Brooks. "And that's me. A little kid from Brooklyn who finally made it across the vast East River to Manhattan, to Broadway. That's a journey that is as great as from the Alleghenies to the Rockies." You made...
Some people look south of the Yucatan and see poverty and underdevelopment. Robert Petterson sees roads and bridges to be built and land to be cleared for modern housing and industry--all with the yellow earthmovers and other heavy equipment made by Caterpillar, based in Peoria, Ill. A quarter of the firm's $21.2 billion annual revenues comes from exports, but not enough of it from Latin America, thanks in part to tariffs that can reach 30%. Create a giant free-trade zone in the hemisphere, says Petterson, a Caterpillar vice president, and "we calculate that industrywide, over 10 years...