Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still chock full of gearheads who are torqued off at Smith for abandoning them to folks who wouldn't know which end of a wrench to hold. And GM's bureaucracy, as thick as any company's, can still downshift a project to neutral at the drop of a meeting. One high-level executive says the parade of meetings leaves him only 30 hours a month to work on new products and sales. "Things are 100% better than they were," he complains, "but it's still so tough and painfully slow to get anything done. It's not a problem...
...five-year, $2.1 billion, University-wide capital campaign which ends in 1999. As Glimp daydreamed out loud in a conversation this week, "The dramatic idea of it would be if sometime in the fall of 1999, we get one of those enormous helicopters that holds big logs...and just drop [the tower...
Yale Medical School (YMS) has admitted almost twice as many Harvard undergraduates than Yale undergraduates in the first round of acceptances despite an overall drop in the number of applications this year...
...cheeks and those Halloween wax lips, ever puckered and pouty. The rock-star-satyr features surely helped land him the Morrison role, as well as those cartoon ghosts of the King of Rock 'n' Roll in Top Secret! and True Romance. Yet the look stops just short of drop-dead handsome. Its steely seriousness--all that grit and drive with no hint of easy humor--suggests less Elvis Presley than Elvis Stojko. If Kilmer is to execute the actor's equivalent of a quadruple toe loop, it won't be from movie-star grace but from a triumph...
...modeling experience; he wanted to ritually sell an image. Once I realized that this movie was going to be a two-hour ad for the toys, that nothing I did mattered, I wasn't a pain in the ass." He says it was his choice to drop out of the series and that Schumacher offered him the lead role in his next film, A Time to Kill, which made a star of Matthew McConaughey. "Joel thought my turning it down was a reflection on him, which it wasn't. No hard feelings--I turn down a couple of movies...