Word: haulings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goods; Digital Equipment, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Emerson Electric in high technology; Delta Air Lines and McDonald's in services; and Caterpillar, Dana and 3M in a catchall category called "general industrial." Those companies were singled out not only because of their solid financial performance over the long haul (20 years or more) but also because of other qualities, especially the ability to innovate. The excellent companies, say the authors, "fawn" on their customers and learn from them. The best managers value action above all else, a spirit of "do it, fix it, try it." They insist...
...profiteer, and Brown is frankly causing the Governor to give a damn. Over the past few years, the former owner of Kentucky Fried Chicken has apparently been withdrawing sacks of hundred dollar bills from his account at a bank in Miami, not far from his vacation home. His total haul: $1.3 million. A grand jury is now investigating whether the bank violated a federal requirement that all cash withdrawals above $10,000 be reported to the IRS. It was his money, of course, and Brown explains that "the poor old Governor" has "a fairly expensive wife...
...Haul carrying 65 University of Virginia (UVa) students overturned and crushed a Volkswagen Wednesday night, killing two passengers and seriously injuring 14. Police officers on the scene said the student driver had been drinking before the accident...
Trinkle said the fraternity was violating its contract for the U-Haul by using it to transport "persons or intoxicating liquors." The penalty for contract violation is loss of insurance, he added...
...Somerville crew found all of this quaintness and charm--and that inimitable sense of adventure--a bit too heavy a load to haul to Harvard Square. And we are left with a mere weakling stepchild of a former king. Steve's unusual flavors just won't quite taste the same in the reconverted hardware store. Maybe we'd be better off if we learned to like vanilla...