Word: legging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After Bill Clinton's joke four years ago during his Presidential campaign that Americans could buy one and get one free with Hillary as the First Lady fell flat, the Clintons seemed to have learned their lesson. On the Finnish leg of an 11-day tour through Europe, Hillary said she's looking forward to jumping into the campaign but declined to discuss her role. It's likely to be a much lower profile one than four years ago. TIME's James Carney notes Hillary has become at once one of her husband's best assets...
...court settlement in Alabama softened another get-tough law-enforcement device, the newly revived chain gang. After an Alabama guard shot a prisoner to death during a fight between two men who had been shackled together, authorities agreed to break up the chain, though each prisoner will still wear leg irons. Officials talk of an exodus of California parolees to more forgiving states, but it's doubtful they're moving to Alabama...
...didn't see him as a Southwest Conference champion, much less a national champion," says Hart. "But it's not the first time I was wrong, or the last." Johnson might have made the 1988 Olympic team as a sophomore, but he suffered a stress fracture in one leg. The next year a pulled quadriceps caused him to miss most of the outdoor season. "The adversity helped him," says Hart. "He was like hammered steel." Johnson stayed healthy in 1990 and began a 47-race winning streak (31 in the 200 and 16 in the 400) that carried...
...Laotian border. The team, code named Hadley, was supposed to gather intelligence on supply convoys traveling the Ho Chi Minh Trail, but within a day North Vietnamese soldiers began rounding up the commandos. An iron shackle was secured to Pham with a stake driven through the flesh of his leg, and he was taken north. Once in prison, he spent hours hanging upside down in the sun with his jaw held shut by a muzzle. Rats and cockroaches nibbled at the torn flesh on his leg as he spent his nights in a bare brick cell, unheated even when...
...same time, re-engineering has become synonymous with less elegant forms of reorganization, notably downsizing, in which CEOs fire workers wholesale to make a company more "efficient." It can be the management equivalent of cutting off a leg of the chair you are sitting on to save wood. Says Hammer: "It is astonishing to me the extent to which the term re-engineering has been hijacked, misappropriated and misunderstood." He says the goal isn't to eliminate people. Rather, re-engineering makes what they do more valuable and rewarding. The catch: a re-engineered company initially requires fewer workers. Ideally...