Word: ills
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Schrempp, who will succeed Eaton as DaimlerChrysler's chairman after the first three years, might be the kind of Mercedes executive who can bridge that gap and make this marriage work. A former apprentice mechanic, he arrived in Stuttgart in 1987 and made--and later unmade--an ill-fated deal with Dutch aerospace firm Fokker. He also did a stint at a Daimler division in Cleveland, Ohio. When Daimler fell deep in the red in the mid-'90s, he embarked on a series of American-style cost-cutting programs that reduced the work force by some...
Strings occupy a special, not particularly exalted place in jazz, their use generally signifying either a descent into pop schlock or an ill-advised stab at European art-music "legitimacy." Or, in the worst cases, a truly appalling amalgamation of the two. Charlie Parker's recordings with strings are probably the genre's acme. With their mostly undistinguished arrangements backing the saxophonist as if he were a B-list crooner, the sessions have long been dismissed by jazzbos as being beneath his talents. But he himself was proud of them, and listeners today, accustomed to the burr-in-your...
...taxes, my refund is directly deposited. In my wallet I have one ATM card and one credit card. Managing money never has to be any simpler than this. And the average person isn't going to carry an e-cash card. ANDREW J. KIWIET Forest Park, Ill...
...evidence presented by Walter C. McCrone, Ph.D., a member of the 1978 Shroud of Turin Research Project. In numerous articles and a recent book, McCrone has shown that there is no blood on the shroud. The image on the linen was created with artist's pigments. CRAIG DELLER Geneva, Ill...
...abilities and preparation. At heart, this is a socioeconomic problem. Many minority students come from low-income families, in which education is often not held in high regard. As a result of their parents' indifference, a number of these children do not perform well in school and are generally ill prepared for any college, much less schools with high academic standards, like the University of California, Berkeley. It's time for the media and minority leaders to quit screaming about racial injustice and begin preaching the message that preparation for college begins early, and it begins in the home...