Word: dieselization
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Then there's the Holocaust. In a 1990 newspaper column, Buchanan didn't hesitate to say that people who survived the Nazi death camps suffer from "group fantasies of martyrdom." He even tried his hand at Holocaust revisionism, arguing that diesel-engine exhaust could not have killed so many Jews at Treblinka. Hitler? A mass murderer, Buchanan admits in a 1977 piece, but a man of "great courage" and "a soldier's soldier." If it matters to you that you don't leave the impression that you are carrying a torch for the Fuhrer, that's a judgment you frame...
...turnaround would be no small task. The German-born Spindler, 53, known as "the Diesel" for his drive, was himself brought in as a miracle worker by Markkula, when Apple's share of the personal-computer market hovered at 9.4%. Now it is just 7.8%. The company was hard hit last year by the arrival of Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system, which mimics the look and feel of Apple's Macintosh computers but runs on IBM-compatible machines that are cheaper...
Andrews, a supplies specialist who arrived in Tuzla on Christmas Eve, was sharing a drafty warehouse with about 200 men and women bedding down on green cots with shaky frames. Featuring a muddy concrete floor and diesel fumes, Building 21 is a temporary billet until tent cities are built at the base. For now, bedtime fashion consists of sweaters, wool hats, glove liners and socks. The bundling up is useful because nighttime temperatures drop below freezing, but it is not much help against drips from a leaky ceiling. Meals are still prepackaged rations of stews, mushy vegetables and dry cake...
...SEEMS CERTAIN TO BE A WHITE Christmas; snow already covers the ground in Tuzla. But merry? The weather will be bitingly cold, the air filled with the stench of diesel fumes. Christmas dinner will be the T-rations detested by G.I.s; carols will be sung to the hum of noisy electric generators. And many of the soldiers setting up camps for the Bosnia peacekeeping operation will sleep in tents. Big ones with wooden floors, heat, fluorescent lights and flush toilets. But still tents...
...from the French, and rendezvoused with the two kayakers at sea a few miles down the island's coast. Greenpeace bought the boat somewhat casually at dockside in Papeete and equipped it in four days, without sea testing and without including a long-range radio transmitter or receiver. (The diesel engine died four hours into the voyage, so the vessel also lacked electric power, except a little generated by solar panels, and thus had no functioning refrigerator or electric bilge pump.) A tiny shortwave radio occasionally brought in a scrap of intelligence. Somebody had reached the quarter-finals...