Word: mop-up
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...midst of a cleanup of toxic financial waste that will cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars, at the very least. The primary manufacturers of these hazardous products pocketed multimillion-dollar paychecks for their efforts. So why aren't we making them pay for the mop...
Lionized as Wall Street’s most capable mop-up man, incoming Merrill Lynch CEO John A. Thain was known as a quiet, polite, and incisive Midwesterner during his days at Harvard Business School. On Saturday, Thain, a 1979 graduate of Harvard, will take charge of Merrill Lynch and attempt to rescue the brokerage firm from the biggest crisis in its 93-year history. In interviews with The Crimson, Thain’s former Business School classmates remembered his days across the Charles, where he attended school along with his Merrill Lynch predecessor E. Stanley O’Neal...
After running for 145 yards and a touchdown in mop-up duty last year, Ho nearly matched that total in his first start, picking up 116 yards on 24 carries against the Crusaders, including a 47-yard touchdown scamper that showcased solid cutting ability and elusiveness...
...latest mop-up job is a toughie. During a deposition of plaintiffs in a corporate malfeasance case his bosses want to be settled quickly, the firm's top litigator, Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson), has gone nuts, cavorting naked in a parking lot. The most superficial familiarity with The Parallax View and other political-paranoia movies of the 70s - or with the crimes of EnRon and other big companies - will cue the viewer to expect corporate dirty tricks at the root of Arthur's frayed mental state. The two men will find ruthless adversaries both in the corporation's chief counsel...
...rather suddenly and for the first time in 35 years, U.S. military leaders are talking about increasing troop strength, not so much to fight wars as to do mop-up. To some politicians and commentators, the bombing of the lightly guarded U.N. headquarters in Baghdad last week was an argument for increasing not only the U.S. presence in Iraq but the overall size of the military too. Officially, the Pentagon insisted that neither was necessary. But the Bush Administration tacitly conceded that the U.S. needed help when, after the bombing, it renewed efforts to win support for a U.N. resolution...