Word: ganging
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sayyaf is believed to have split into three rival factions and there is some doubt as to whether the al Qaeda link has been maintained. Indeed, today not only the Philippine government but also the rival MNLF and MILF regard Abu Sayyaf as nothing more than a criminal gang whose primary activity is accumulating funds through taking hostages...
Lutz believes GM will be a turnaround story like Chrysler by the time he leaves in three years. "This gang has just the esprit de corps and even more capability than we had back then," he says. He acknowledges that once he left Chrysler, the company lost sight of its high-design, low-cost mission. "I realize now that what I have to do here is leave behind a system that works." Really, that's Rick Wagoner's job, but now he'll get a jump start from Bob Lutz...
DIED. JOHN GUEDEL, 88, workaholic producer of popular '40s and '50s shows like Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life and Art Linkletter's People Are Funny; in Los Angeles. Before meeting Linkletter in 1941, Guedel got his start writing for TV's Laurel and Hardy and Our Gang comedies...
Since George W. Bush took over the White House, Blair has founded his foreign policy on achieving trust with Washington's new gang of Texan-accented unilateralists. He disagrees with Bush on many topics, from the Kyoto climate change accords to how hard to lean on Israel. But he figured the place to influence this self-absorbed bunch was from inside, so he noisily backed Bush on nuclear missile defense and told Europeans to take the idea seriously...
...clear-sighted leader in war and diplomacy and head of the E.U.'s most diffident member state, whose dinner table other European leaders still clamor to grace. Since George W. Bush took over the White House, Blair has founded his foreign policy on achieving trust with Washington's new gang of Texan-accented unilateralists. He disagrees with Bush on many topics, from the Kyoto climate change accords to how hard to lean on Israel. But he figured the place to influence that self-absorbed bunch was from inside, so he noisily backed Bush on nuclear missile defense and told Europeans...