Word: freak
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...were hoping for. Answers and a sense of completion are both missing as the National Transportation Safety Board prepares to issue its "final report" on the 1996 crash of TWA flight 800. The plane's fiery demise, in which all 230 aboard were killed, was, it seems, a freak accident - a conclusion that, while comforting in its own way, as it nudges out the possibility of a serious design defect in the 747 model, provides the victims' survivors with little sense of closure...
That's asking too much, perhaps. The good-ole-boy network that puts the best IPOs in the hands of the best clients remains intact. In some cases the code will get even more indecipherable. And while the field levels, there may be less information overall as companies freak out over what they can say. Some 42% of companies polled say they will reduce communications to avoid running afoul of the new rule, reports the National Investor Relations Institute...
...legendary among his friends as a cheapskate, rarely carrying cash and traveling, one says, "like the Queen." Want more? He makes his bed every day, even when he stays in hotels, and he irons shirts that have already been pressed by the dry cleaners. Tiger Woods is a neat freak...
...could be a freak or a fluke: a 12-year-old with a hit CD. But the kid is no country-music aberration, no preteen Billy Ray Cyrus. As he shows on this set of puppy-love tunes and hound-dog rave-ups, Gilman is a real singer--sort of Charlotte Church gone Nashville--with impressive breath control and a fine sense of drama. On the title ballad, for instance, he'll hold a long note without hoking it up, without forsaking its texture or personality. This is a voice of choirboy purity, before it gets weathered and leathered...
...Gore may be Washington's best known control freak, but when it comes to minutiae, he has nothing on Bob Graham, who these days appears on nearly everyone's short list of possible Gore running mates. The Florida Senator has been filling notebook after notebook--close to four thousand of them to date, color coded by season. He has kept a running account of his every waking moment for the past 23 years--14 in the Senate, eight in the Governor's mansion, even his days in the state legislature. Graham writes down every meal, every meeting, every person...