Word: drilling
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...Starting as a lowly account executive 30 years ago, Beers is the only woman to head two of the largest advertising agencies. She was one of the few women to ever appear on Fortune's cover, legendary for wooing clients, once successfully pitching Sears while taking apart a power drill (and putting it back together again without chipping a nail). Last spring when Powell, who'd gotten to know her on various corporate boards recruited her, she had retired to West Palm Beach, Florida, with her white toy poodle. Recently remarried to a New York art dealer and confirmed...
...thought it was just a fire drill, but when I went into the hallway it was filled with smoke,” she said...
During a routine spring drill, Leiszler tore the ACL in his left knee. As Butler’s story demonstrated, normally such an injury is a temporary setback and only requires surgery and recuperation. But for Leiszler, it was his third such injury in three years. The doctors delivered a grim prognosis and chances are slim that Leiszler will ever play football again...
...practice, Coleman has to do five push-ups everytime he misses a free throw. He takes part in a drill in which he has to keep playing until he hauls in three consecutive rebounds. He is pushing himself to the limit and doesn’t receive a penny for his efforts or any fanfare from the student body...
While he praised the nimbleness and skill of the public-health network, the system had been through a tense fire drill. It had taken a week and a half to nail down the diagnosis of anthrax at NBC. At first the baby believed to have been infected at ABC News was thought to have a spider bite. Testing at the CDC lab in Atlanta was delayed for 14 hours after a 1-hr. power failure. Most health-care workers have never seen a case of anthrax, though they are learning what it looks like fast. Many of the national Emergency...