Word: holderness
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LONDON: Who died and made the Guinness Book of Records the great sage of age? Jeanne Calment, that's who. When the 122-year-old record holder died in France this month, the world's most famous record book held a stony silence on who the successor to the "world's oldest" title would be. Today they announced the winner: Marie-Louise Febronie Meilleur, a 116-year-old native of Quebec, whose birth certificate is stamped...
Nicotine calms the nerves and stiffens the backbone. Cigarettes in our World War II K rations helped win the war. As the holder of a battlefield commission in World War II, I know. With a major portion of our cigarettes now sent overseas, one could worry about what would happen in the event of another war. Nicotine wins wars. We must not permit a nicotine gap! DAVID MANZELLA Barrington...
...desperately short of star power would be very bad for business. Even a diminished Tyson remains an invincible money magnet. The fight with Holyfield brought in a record 1.8 million viewer buys and $90 million in pay-per-view revenue for the cable channel Showtime. The previous record holder? Tyson's previous fight with Holyfield...
...bitterly partisan Washington, Senate Republicans can make a name by morphing into one-man roadblocks. Alabama's Richard Shelby clocked 15 minutes of fame by stopping CIA nominee Anthony Lake, who eventually withdrew. Orrin Hatch, head of the judiciary committee, last week abruptly postponed hearings for Eric Holder to be Deputy Attorney General because Holder's office once asked the IRS to delay a probe of D.C. police officers. Fifty-seven other presidential nominations are awaiting congressional approval...
...shareholders so sore? Because, as usual, corporate America has a taste for excess, particularly in the sheer number of stock options being granted. With nearly half the Fortune 500 companies reporting, about 6% granted their CEO at least 1 million stock options last year. (An option gives the holder the right to buy stock at a preset price within a specific period of time, regardless of what happens in the market.) You don't need to take off your socks to figure that a stock gain of merely $1--a slam dunk for any company that is not soundly asleep...