Word: chum
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...voracious serial killer in The Silence of the Lambs. He not only won an Oscar, he also vaulted into instant celebrity. "I thought it would be the role of a lifetime." He was right, and it is a celebrity he frankly relishes. He will phone the secretary of a chum and identify himself as "her friend who likes to eat people...
...Easy, chum," I growled...
...Speaker managed to join the elite ranks of favored IPO buyers through a high school chum who is now his broker, Peter de Roetth of Boston's Account Management Corp. De Roetth defended his sweet offerings by saying, "I would like Tom Foley not to have to think about money." Putting up very little cash, Foley allowed De Roetth to buy and quickly sell shares in companies that rose dramatically in value soon after they were issued. Says Jay Ritter, a professor of finance at the University of Illinois: "Speculators like Foley are just feeding at the trough, throwing sand...
...Glines Canyon Dam and the Elwha Dam on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula are also possible candidates for removal. They block five species of salmon -- the Chinook, the pink, sockeye, chum and coho -- from spawning grounds. Observes Shawn Cantrell, director of Friends of the Earth's Northwest Rivers Project: "If the final decision is made to remove the dams, it will be a statement by our national government that past exploitation of our natural resources can be corrected. We can go back and fix the mistakes we made in previous generations...
Other people are simply in over their heads -- literally, in some cases. Clinton asked Arkansas chum Bruce Lindsey to oversee the appointments process and remain at his side on trips out of town. But Lindsey is so overwhelmed by the sheer volume of paper crossing his desk that he has resorted to a method of filing that consists of crisscrossing documents as they came in: one sideways, one straight, one sideways and so on. When one stack grew too tall, he started another. When he ran out of flat surfaces, he added to a previous stack. Soon the stacks collapsed...