Word: jim
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...Right now, it looks like we are seeing a lack of conservation," Jim McIntosh, grid operations manager for the California Independent System Operator, told the Los Angeles Times. Though conservation is very difficult to measure, McIntosh said electrical use Tuesday was following historical patterns, and not showing any dips that could be attributed to conservation...
...woke up in the Philadelphia Naval Hospital, where doctors sawed off half his right leg. He still calls the hospital, not Vietnam, "the most important and defining period of my life." In that old-fashioned 12-story building, he shared a room and nine months of recuperation with Jim Crotty, a Marine pilot badly burned in an accident. "What he saw when he arrived at the hospital was room after room of people maimed like you wouldn't believe," Crotty said. "He looked at the whole thing and said, 'Jesus Christ, what...
...would BMW foot a big bill for an Internet campaign? "Our purchasers are driven, work-hard, play-hard people," says Jim McDowell, vice president of marketing for BMW of North America. "They're very time pressured." You know the type: a CEO who moonlights in ER. "But about 85% of them are on the Web before they buy a BMW. We wanted to do something that would get their full attention...
...refusing treatment and thumbing their nose at the court." But a 1999 report by the Arizona supreme court--now being updated--found that 77% of offenders stayed off drugs during the year following their arrest and that the state had saved $2.5 million in prison costs. Probation officer Jim Frost, a 30-year veteran, didn't think treatment would work "without jail hanging over someone's head." Now he says, "Boy, was I wrong. Drug users are not apathetic people with glazed eyes. They care about succeeding--pretty much like everyone else...
...morbidly fascinating, if paradoxical, that a pop star would shine brighter in the dark abyss of death than in the daylight of life. The late rapper Tupac Shakur is no exception to the rule [SHOW BUSINESS, April 16]. Like the work of fellow musicians Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison--who were all cut down in their prime yet are still selling big some 30 years later--Tupac's music undoubtedly will be sold, purchased and heard for many generations to come. Why? Partly because he was one heck of an artist and partly because of the secrets that...