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...Haines refused to support him, but when the reporter questioned him further he agreed that he wouldn't say that the crew wouldn't beat Yale. When the questioner tried to pursue the subject further the coach let out a great shout and spun the wheel of the coaching launch around in great haste, so that the launch was gone in a twinkling without any more discussion of the crew situation...
When a grass fire first starts, you can jump right in the middle of it and stomp it out. But if you wait too long, it just becomes uncontrollable. We should immediately jump onto the opposition and end it, and then launch smart diplomatic moves to get NATO and the U.N. and other Arab forces involved in a bigger...
...backwards calendar of TV, spring is the season of death, a time when fans launch drives to save endangered shows, a cause usually as futile as protesting the falling of autumn leaves. So it was unusual last month when fans of the animated sitcom Family Guy managed to bring it back, not by writing letters but by spending cash. When Family Guy--canceled not once but twice by Fox during its 1999-2002 run--was released on DVD, fans bought 2.2 million copies. That number helped persuade Cartoon Network (which reruns the show) to give Family Guy a third life...
...make the strategic decisions to expand NATO and push the Middle East peace process. But almost all his other initiatives were tactical, reactions to crises--in Somalia, Haiti, the Balkans and Iraq. The most notable example, the "fly swatting" that Bush reacted against, was Clinton's decision to launch cruise missiles against a terrorist camp in Afghanistan and a chemical factory in Sudan after al-Qaeda bombed the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania...
...turns out Dasani does not flow from mountain springs in Switzerland but from the taps of London. And Coke had to recall Dasani from British shelves after discovering high levels of bromate, a chemical that carries long-term cancer risk. The recall forced Coke to postpone Dasani's launch in France and Germany. For a company that derives two-thirds of its revenues from international sales, the hits do damage: Coke's stock was flat through the first quarter; Pepsi's rose...