Word: marshall
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With Macy's turning a more careful eye to fashion, fear is running rampant among suppliers. Those who filled the racks at the more down-market May department stores are in real danger of getting squeezed out of Federated's pool of thousands of suppliers altogether. Marshal Cohen of NPD Group, a marketing-research firm, anticipates that a vendor that sold only to May stores has a "1 in 100 chance" of being selected by Federated. Of course, the change will benefit the companies that fit into Federated's strategy. Barry Miller, president of sales for $50 million high...
John Wayne comes on at the start of the series' first episode (of an epochal 635) to say that this will be a different kind of western. And James Arness's Marshal Dillon was a different kind of lawman--like the Duke after anger management. Gunsmoke led the TV stampede of "adult westerns." Dillon might be the sage of the sagebrush, musing on man's weakness for violence, but since every show begins with his gunning down a bad guy, we know that this is the same old (Testament) stuff, with a little sweet pacifist palaver mixed...
...stay-seated zone, I was tapped on the shoulder and brightly invited to walk the length of the plane, unescorted, with my pack of poop. Which is exactly what I did, much to the wide-eyed horror of my fellow passengers, who clearly envisioned some burly air marshal tackling me in the aisle and diverting our flight to god know what airport for a six-hour FBI interrogation...
...major controversy centered on whether Alpizar said he had a bomb as he rushed off the plane. Dave Adams, a spokesman for the Federal Air Marshal Service, said Alpizar "was carrying the backpack and walking down the aisle yelling 'I've got a bomb in the backpack.'" But several passengers recall events differently. "I never heard the word bomb on the plane," says McAlhany, a construction worker from Sebastian, Fla., who notes, "I don't think they needed to use deadly force with the guy. He was getting off the plane." Jorge Borrelli, an Orlando architect who was also...
Critics of the air-marshal program cite the shooting as evidence that the agents should not be armed in the first place. "The idea that putting a gun on an airplane makes the public safer--that simply isn't true," says Kristen Rand, legislative director of the Violence Policy Center, a nonprofit gun-control group. An investigation is being conducted by the Miami-Dade police. But right now, the one person taking blame is Alpizar's wife. "He didn't want to get on the plane," passengers heard Buechner say after the shots were fired. "My husband is dead...