Word: cleanness
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...company as a womanizer, often with Boeing employees, according to a report in BusinessWeek. (Condit has declined to comment.) The board's choice of Stonecipher as CEO showed either a lack of confidence in homegrown talent--the board surprisingly passed over Alan Mulally, 58, a dynamic and squeaky-clean Midwesterner who heads the commercial-jet unit--or a preference for a hard-nosed, decisive CEO. After meeting as frequently as twice a day to wrestle with the succession, the board broke its own age-limit rule of 65 to give the job to the 67-year-old Stonecipher...
...Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), the world's biggest and most ambitious fusion-energy project. Wearing the E.U.'s colors, Cadarache is competing against a Japanese team to host a plant that will attempt to replicate the sun's own energy, fusing hydrogen into helium to exploit a limitless and clean source of power. But locals are not looking as far as the stars: the ITER would inject some €10 billion into the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region over its 30-year life span, generating more than €2 billion in secondary benefits and creating over...
FLEUR DE SEL, FRANCE Long considered the Dom Perignon of salt, it's gathered from the top of ponds on an island in Brittany. It's clean, dry and light, with a nice crunch, no aftertaste and great meltability...
...speech for chanteuses) at first seems like a profoundly bad idea. But throughout her standards album, also titled At Last, Lauper embraces her own fragility. She's not strong on the high notes of Walk On By (again with the Bacharach!) or Unchained Melody, but she's exceedingly clean and emotional. She's also very much herself. Lauper performs Makin' Whoopee with a Teutonic exhaustion worthy of Madeline Kahn. It's a great, funny interpretation made even better when, halfway through, Tony Bennett shows up for a little banter. Lauper isn't redefined by At Last - she'll forever just...
With three defenders positioned across the foul line in order to shut down the wings, clean glimpses at the rim were few and far between for the Huskies and most especially for Kowalski, who was held scoreless for a 10:34 stretch in the second frame...