Word: neb
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Tight-fisted corporate execs have been the biggest brake on growth for several years, but they appear to be relaxing their grip. Tony Raimondo, CEO of Behlen Manufacturing in Columbus, Neb., estimates that war jitters were costing his metal-fabricating firm $2 million a month in lost orders--about 20% of his anticipated business. Raimondo expects spending to pick up now, as it did after Gulf I. Orders last week were twice what they were a year ago. Says Sung Won Sohn, chief economist at Wells Fargo: "When I visit our customers throughout California, they all tell me they need...
There were other pivotal times. In 1965, after I'd held anchorman jobs in Omaha, Neb., and Atlanta, NBC offered me a job in the Los Angeles bureau. I flew out to L.A., looked around and decided I really wanted to be a Washington correspondent. I turned down the offer. A few months later, they upped the ante, and it was just too good to resist. I took...
...Iraqi border, are enemies who will want to kill these Americans if war comes. And now protesters at home are demanding that the troops return from here without firing a shot. "We're confused," says Marine Private First Class Patrick Cox, 21, an LAV driver from Broken Bow, Neb. "Are the protesters going to spit on us when we go home...
First-years Cameron A. Fine, 18, of Phoenix, Ariz., Christopher W. Gary, 18, of Nazareth, Pa., Brett D. Smith, of Papillion, Neb., sophomore Zachery A. Bradley, 19, of Alexander, Ark. and senior Eric W. Wenzel, 21, of Garden City N.Y., were injured in the crash...
...that's the least of the tribe's worries. The Justice Department sued the tribe again, charging that the machines the NIGC had recommended were actually illegal. A federal judge in Omaha, Neb., disagreed and sided with the Indians and the NIGC. But the Justice Department appealed the ruling and dispatched a squad of high-powered litigators who prosecute organized-crime kingpins to argue the case. Commenting on the Justice Department's actions, Thomas says, "They have done everything they could to make this tribe out to be criminals when all we are is struggling to survive." --With reporting...