Word: nephew
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...tech hardware store, IBM is now selling help. Gerstner is betting that for the next 10 years, the technology market will be stuffed with firms aching to get rewired but without a clue about where to begin. IBM plans to sell these folks "solutions," the institutional equivalent of your nephew Phil, the relative you call when you're debating which PC to buy or wondering how to rescue the last half of that tax return you were preparing. Gerstner's Big Blue will offer solutions to help point you safely to the future. If the old IBM was father Thomas...
...ruling invited a mob of contenders, credible and otherwise, to hop back into the race. And this was bad news for Democrats in an increasingly Republican state. Ken Bentsen, nephew of the state's most revered former Senator, has problems enough with the fact that his Houston district, marginally Democratic when he won it in 1992, tilted slightly Republican under the court-ordered redesign. To avoid a runoff, he must win a majority of the votes next month against no fewer than 10 opponents, ranging from a refinery worker backed by the Socialist Workers Party to a district judge favored...
...horrors attendant on this kind of catastrophic injury. I know that Chris will bring the same intensity, energy and intelligence he displayed as an actor to his efforts to reverse paralysis from spinal-cord trauma. I pray that I will live to see the day when Chris and my nephew Adam will walk again. DAVID M. PETROU Washington
...Daley machine built the Resting Place of All Concrete--McCormick Place, world's largest convention center, out on the lake in the late '50s. It was forever in construction, and one would have thought, on its completion, that everyone's nephew had bought his boat; but lo, it opened, was inaugurated, burnt to the ground, and the construction began again, and great was the joy of the marine sales community...
...three scions of earlier film generations. Jonny Lee Miller, who as Sick Boy obsesses over the career of Sean Connery, is the son of actor Bernard Lee--"M" in 11 Bond films. Producer Andrew MacDonald is the grandson of auteur Emeric Pressburger (The Red Shoes). And McGregor is the nephew of Denis Lawson, a deliciously droll, comic actor in Scottish movies (Local Hero) and West End musicals (Mr. Cinders). Young Ewan, the son of teachers, got the itch to act from Lawson. "I was brought up in Crieff, a small, conservative town," McGregor says, "and he had long hair, beads...