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...feel that women have less of a chance to secure the same deals," Brattle said. She cited in particular male-dominated forums of business such as golf courses and the all-male Boston Squash Club...
...rise from 8% to nearly 14% over the past five years. To reduce its interest expense, the Japanese company hopes to renegotiate the $1.3 billion mortgage it acquired in 1989. (That was the heady period when another Japanese firm, the Minoru Isutani Group, acquired California's famous Pebble Beach golf course for $840 million, which it sold at a 40% loss two years ago.) Mitsubishi threatened to default on its loan last week, which some analysts say was a calculated move. "They're figuring out that the way to get the banks to listen to them is to threaten bankruptcy...
...that now. Both warriors, clad in plaid pants with mustard yellow polo shirts and tweed hats, hurling cybernetic golf balls at each other and wielding bioengineered pitching wedges...
...best passages in Family occur when Frazier follows, in a rented car, the marches undertaken by the 55th and tries to take himself back in time. Usually he succeeds, and when he fails he still shows his familiar flair for comic relief: "I figured that my suitcase, briefcase and golf clubs probably weighed about the same as the full kit and rifle carried by a private in the 55th. I considered parking the car and trying some of this march myself, fully loaded, just to get an idea what it was like. Then I decided...
...begins in the heat of the Cold War, just as General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) has manipulated routine Air Force procedures into a full preemptive strike on the Soviet Union. The general is the kind of man who carries a machine gun and artillery belt in his golf bag. His companion in his final hour is Captain Mandrake, a young Peter Sellers in the role of a British officer at the mercy of commie-phobic Yanks...