Word: gales
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...countries like Egypt and Mexico, for instance, farmland that formerly grew staples for human consumption is being switched to grow grain for beef that only the wealthy can afford. Indirectly, then, a growing cattle population threatens humans on the low end of the economic scale with hunger. D. Gale Johnson, an agricultural economist at the University of Chicago, questions this assumption. He notes that in China, beef consumption has risen in tandem with overall improvements in diet...
...words of an insider, "fairly acrimonious." Many women members believe that by filing an amicus curiae brief in support of the shipyard, the organization displayed insensitivity to the intimidating effect that pornography has on women in predominantly male environments. "The workplace is different from the street," contends Mary Ellen Gale, a Whittier College law professor and member of the A.C.L.U.'s national board. "If someone shouts an obscenity on the street, you're not captive and you're not being denied equal opportunity. But it's different when it happens in the workplace. Robinson's ability...
...with the 400-h.p. Dodge Viper RT/10, a performance machine that has sports-car fans salivating even before the limited-edition coupe hits the streets (only 300 will be produced this year). The Viper grew from a 1989 challenge issued by Chrysler president Bob Lutz to design chief Tom Gale and engineering director Francois Castaing: develop a classic sports car that could match the machines of old. Legendary Cobra designer Carroll Shelby, now a Chrysler consultant, was brought in to be "the conscience" of the Viper. "We set out to make a car that was just as brutal...
...TURNER'S LIFE MAY BEST BE UNDERSTOOD AS A startling series of narrowly missed disasters. When he skippered his yacht in Britain's prestigious Fastnet race in 1979, he was so absorbed in victory that he did not even know a gale was killing 15 yachtsmen in the boats behind him. His costly acquisition of MGM's movie library in 1986, widely considered a bonehead move at the time, now looks like a bargain the Japanese would envy. The Atlanta Braves, which Turner bought in 1976, snuffled along in the gutter for years, then went from last place to first...
...Margaret Gale, 42, of Bethlehem, described herself as a leftwing Democrat. She said she could relate to Kerrey...