Word: jim
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...Walk Away does at least walk you through walking away. That's why Jim Lowry, a San Francisco--based maintenance manager, is pretty happy with the firm, even though it doesn't talk to his bank or do any other legwork for him as he tries to find a buyer before the bank repossesses his daughter's house. Lowry had talked to some other real estate types, but it wasn't until a phone conversation with a You Walk Away "advocate" that he felt he had a handle on the situation. "I'm not worried anymore. I know what...
...local sites abroad, but is in no rush to overhaul its overall look and feel. "Craigslist as you see it today is the result of millions of suggestions received from tens of millions of users, and the features you see are those which Craigslist users have asked for," says Jim Buckmaster, Craigslist CEO. Buckmaster says that the company is less concerned with competition and growing marketshare than it is with serving its existing users. "We're simply trying to follow through on feedback received from our users," he adds. As sites like Kijiji and Oodle gain traction, and even unlikely...
...first half of Pineda's story isn't unique - Filipino cover bands are ubiquitous in many Asian cities. It's a phenomenon Manila-based PhilMusic.com founder Jim Ayson attributes to an imbalance in supply and demand. "There are more musicians in the Philippines than there are opportunities," says Ayson, a drummer who knew Pineda in the 1980s. But Pineda's rags-to-riches story is giving new hope to Filipino singers. "A lot of singers here tried to make it in the States and they couldn't," he says. "[Pineda] made...
...July 2002, the office of the Pentagon's former top lawyer, William "Jim" Haynes, began to examine a program that taught U.S. military personnel how to survive interrogation methods used by dictatorships such as North Korea and the former Soviet Union. The program, know as SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape), was designed to prepare U.S. personnel to face techniques such as sensory deprivation, sleep disruption, being forced into stress positions and even "waterboarding." Haynes' office sought to borrow the interrogation techniques of America's erstwhile enemies - techniques that if used against detainees, may violate U.S. law and the Geneva Conventions...
...Jim Webb served four years as a Marine officer, some of that time in Vietnam, following his education at the U.S. Naval Academy. He left the service in 1972 and later served as Ronald Reagan's Navy Secretary before being elected in 2006 as a Democratic Senator from Virginia. Webb, a prolific writer and author, is haunted by a 1979 article he wrote for Washingtonian magazine titled "Women Can't Fight." He has since disowned that position, but it's a safe bet Hillary Clinton loyalists - whom the Obama campaign needs to woo into its camp...