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...from under the worst crisis in company history. IBM has sent out such a Mayday. Answering the call were retired vice chairmen Paul Rizzo, 64, and Kaspar Cassani, also 64, who will help chairman and chief executive John Akers get Big Blue back on an even keel. Still unanswered, though, is the question of who asked the pair to return. Some analysts think Akers did it, to placate IBM's increasingly dissatisfied board. Others suspect the board brought Rizzo and Cassani back, as the first step toward easing Akers...
...just can't place. (His place, for trivia's sake, is "on the East side, in a deluxe apartment in the sky." He played the off-beat neighbor, Harry Bentley, on television's The Jeffersons.) Benedict dominates the stage throughout, although one does worry that he might keel over due to coronary failure brought on by excessive energy expenditure. The rest of the company, from toddlers on up, performs relatively anonymously but nonetheless effectively as background for Scrooge's transformation...
...extinction; and in June, when he had the Democratic nomination locked up but was running behind Perot as well as Bush. In early February columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak reported that "mainline Democratic politicians" considered Clinton to be "one of the walking dead who sooner or later will keel over." That sentiment would be repeated many times until the late-summer polls gave...
...need to get on a good keel prior to going into our league schedule. The important thing for us is getting back on track. We're excited about playing," Russo said...
...full-size boat, the designer's job is just beginning. Prototypes are built, tested, stripped down and used to build better prototypes. Even the finished model is never left alone. Both the Venezia and the America 3 were overhauled yet again before the finals began. The U.S. boat's keel, fin and rudder were removed and adjusted for the calmer weather that has been prevailing around San Diego. "We recognized that we were a bit susceptible in those conditions," says Phil Kaiko, one of the boat's designers. "We've decided to slant ourselves in that direction...