Word: laden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When a debt-laden Domino's foundered in 1992, Monaghan returned to restructure the company and revive its fortunes. Domino's falling market share turned up again, and its worldwide sales have grown impressively--from $2.2 billion in 1993 to $3.2 billion last year. In his farewell letter to employees, Monaghan wrote--with perhaps a touch of pride--that the new owners of Domino's "are not buying a company in crisis, needing change to survive." Not at all. For years it was the flamboyant Monaghan himself who was in crisis, making his departure from Domino's only the latest...
...added that the first bomb was intended to kill bin Laden. The government had received intelligence that he would be at his camp meeting with advisers...
...honestly think in my soul, the reasons to not do this, the reasons to delay were so profound, that not delaying can only be seen as an issue for the President, that he simply wanted to stand up in Martha's Vineyard and say, `Terrorism is over, bin Laden is dead...
Though Hersh's topic was serious, his tone was informal. He entered laden with suitcases, which he dumped in a corner of the room before speaking. He interacted with the audience members, asking them questions of his own after answering theirs...
This "unique perch," as he dubbed it, prompted him to start writing--four years ago for The New Yorker and more recently in his book The Measure of Our Days-- about the emotionally-laden experiences of caring for patients with blood disease, cancer and HIV. These patients, nearing the end of life, arrive at provocative revelations that Groopman treasures...