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...precise nature of the disruption gradually came to light. The mutation seemingly altered the genetic "sign posts" which allow the cells to orient themselves and travel to the correct places...
...father, C.Y. Tung, flamboyant founder of the Orient Overseas shipping empire, cultivated close relations with Chiang Kai-shek after Chiang's Nationalists fled the mainland for Taiwan. C.Y.'s Hong Kong-registered fleet became a valuable icon of "free China's" economic dynamism. By the time C.Y. died in 1982, however, the company was on the verge of collapse, with 24 tankers on order at a time when a global oversupply of vessels had sent shipping rates plummeting. It fell to C.H., the eldest son, to announce in August 1985 that the company could not repay $2.68 billion in debt...
...then ignoring customer pleas for help in 1994. Another whiff drifts by as Grove recounts Intel's stumbling exit from the memory business just in time to avoid becoming lunchtime sushi for chip-dumping Japanese megaliths. And the scent grows stronger as he chronicles his decision not to orient his company to the Internet. The aroma will be sweetly familiar to patrons of casinos, racetracks and presidential elections. It's the smell of luck...
...Oslo accords require him to do so, Netanyahu says he will refuse to talk to the Palestinians about the future of Jerusalem. He so vituperatively--and unfairly--accused Peres of threatening to divide Jerusalem that he has cut off any maneuvering room. He also pledges to close down Orient House, the P.L.O. headquarters in East Jerusalem, even though the Labor government gave a written assurance, as a secret adjunct to the first Oslo accord, that the office could continue functioning...
...mild mannered, and they are drawn to big, bold-relief political views such as the idea that taxation is theft or that abortion is murder. Lifers are conservative in the more literal sense of the word--they're not temperamentally disposed toward radical change. They have chosen to orient their life toward steadiness, loyalty and teamwork, so they put a high value on those qualities. Talents brag about wanting to destroy the system; Lifers like systems...