Word: knifings
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...Acer's continued profitability is not assured. The company posted earnings of $219.7 million last year but its operating margin was a knife-edged 1.7%, compared with Dell's 8.6%. Yet Wang and Lanci are in expansion mode, investing in marketing and distribution networks in China and the U.S. The goal is to become one of the top three PC sellers by 2008. Even Shih seems impressed. "[Wang] has helped place Acer on the right track," Shih says,"and onto a steady and growing momentum." High praise from the man who once thought there was nowhere for his company...
...abrupt end. He was in the kitchen of his Tudor-style home in tony Jamaica Estates, talking on the telephone with his psychiatrist about committing himself to a mental hospital. Increasingly despondent, the 52-year-old politician suddenly began rummaging through a drawer, pulled out an eight-inch knife and plunged it into his heart. His wife Marlene found him slumping to the floor moments later and pulled the blade from his chest, but he was dead in minutes. There was no suicide note; explanations were unnecessary. Federal prosecutors seemed poised to indict Manes in the biggest New York scandal...
...Pont's Rynite, a reinforced fiber glass) and thereby an ingenious third design: the Equa shell is continuous, but a graceful H-shaped slice is carved out of the lower back so that it becomes virtually animate, bending like two independent pieces. "One day I took an X-Acto knife on one of our little models," Stumpf recalls, "and I just cut that slip in there. I knew right away it would work." Flex and absolute structural integrity without gimmicks: the chair is its material and structure. In addition, the designers engineered a novel tilt mechanism. Because the pivot...
...were let go in the news division; some 300 positions were cut at ABC-owned stations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco. Such familiar trappings of the executive life-style as limousines and liberal expense accounts are now frowned on. Programming, too, may soon feel the knife. The network known for such blockbuster mini-series as Roots and The Winds of War is now shying away from these extravagant ventures. Cheap game shows are not about to invade prime time, and Joan Collins' Dynasty finery appears safe, at least for the time being; but it is clear...
...three dead crew members found inside were Americans. The pair were later identified as William J. Cooper, 61, of Reno, and Wallace Elaine Sawyer Jr., 41, of Magnolia, Ark. A day later searchers cornered Hasenfus hiding in an abandoned shack. Though he was armed with a pistol and a knife, he offered no resistance, and was marched off to a Sandinista base camp. The following day he was helicoptered to Managua, where, unshaven and haggard, he made a brief statement to the press: "My name is Gene Hasenfus. I come from Marinette, Wis. I was captured yesterday in southern Nicaragua...