Word: nonstops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prison, would soon be released, and the Administration was helping make arrangements to whisk him away to the U.S. Since he was ailing and China was granting him a "medical parole," one of his first stops after leaving prison needed to be a hospital. And since the only nonstop route from Beijing to the U.S. on an American carrier was a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit, Henry Ford was chosen to receive the celebrated patient. There was only one catch. "It's possible," warned Dr. Mariano, "that no one will be paying for this...
...putting a Coke vending machine or retail point within arm's length of every consumer. Those market-share points are going to become harder to swallow, though. Coke and Pepsi lay out about $2 billion annually in soft-drink promotion worldwide, and spent an ugly summer in a nonstop price war. Moreover, Pepsi has its own formidable general in Roger Enrico, as well as a new game plan. Enrico recently spun off Pepsi's capital-consuming restaurant division to focus on businesses that add more value: Frito-Lay snack foods and Pepsi. Sound familiar? Pepsi can now open another front...
...Group, is known to keep reams of business information in his head--for instance, precisely when he stomped out as president of American Express after clashing with then-CEO James Robinson. "August 1985," he says, correcting a reporter about the time of the event. In a decade of almost nonstop dealmaking since then, Weill has not only clawed his way back but last week was being hailed as the new king of Wall Street after Travelers sealed a $9 billion deal to acquire Salomon Bros., one of the world's largest bond-trading houses. Says Weill, 64, of his odyssey...
...memorable chapter deals with the Tarahumara Indians of "the rugged southwestern corner of the state of Chihuahua, in the heart of the Sierra Madre Occidental." They are legendary long- distance runners--tall, lean, high-cheekboned men who play a nonstop kickball game over what may be two days and at distances of up to 100 miles. But when they cross the finish line, they more or less ignore the winner, acting as if nothing unusual had happened. Shoumatoff writes that the Tarahumara never accepted the Spanish culture and religion, but that lately their culture has been brutalized by narco-traficantes...
...just what she was getting into. The penny was very much dropping, and it daunted her." "The press were dreadful," says KAY KING, headmistress of the Young England kindergarten. "From the moment the first picture of her appeared at Balmoral until the time of her engagement, it was nonstop. She had no guidance from the palace, because they were trying to pretend it didn't exist...