Word: escapees
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Try as it may, E.F. Hutton, the fifth-largest U.S. brokerage firm, cannot escape an ongoing scandal. In fact, the company seems to become enmeshed ever deeper in suspicions and allegations. In May, Hutton was fined $2 million plus legal costs after pleading guilty to 2,000 counts of mail...
Descendants of Levi Strauss, the California gold-rush jeansmaker who founded the world's largest apparel manufacturer, announced in San Francisco last week that they are "exploring" a move to recapture full family ownership of the company, by taking it private in a $1 billion-plus leveraged buyout. The move...
Fiction once provided a stomping ground for the crazed or eccentric. When the ideal of civilized behavior combined decorum and good manners, books could offer an escape into the manias of Heathcliff, Ahab and Raskolnikov, or into the stubborn individualism of Gatsby and Huckleberry Finn. Heroes and heroines who would...
In Ono the morning routine was this: at 6, Kawamoto would rise, put on his school uniform, and walk down the hill to catch the train for Hiroshima. Monday, Aug. 6, was very hot, even that early in the day, and Kawamoto was tired. All the children his age had...
In the Peace Museum now, Kawamoto uses a long wooden pointer to indicate, in a large circular panorama, the route of the rest of his escape. Above the center of the panorama a bright red ball representing the hypocenter hangs by a cord. Kawamoto touches the pointer to the area...