Word: overheads
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...novel and TV mini-series. In a preview two days before the scheduled opening, as he readied himself to sing the second-act number Death Walk, Casnoff was struck on the head and knocked to the stage by a 30-lb. scenic screen that broke loose from 18 ft. overhead. The performance was immediately canceled. Fortunately, if astonishingly to onlookers, Casnoff suffered only superficial injuries and took just one day off before resuming previews for this week's opening. Some of the metaphysically inclined credited his survival to the producers' having brought in five Shinto priests from Japan, before performances...
...most obvious ways for companies to make ends meet is to cut costs, which includes heavy trimming of the payroll. Over the past two years, Goodyear has pared its work force by some 6,000 workers, to 109,000. Businesses are also reducing overhead by cutting expenses and perks. Marriott, the highly leveraged hotel chain, recently instituted a salary freeze of up to one year for senior managers and three months for administrative and clerical help. Harcourt sold off its fleet of corporate jets and got rid of its chauffeur-driven limousines...
John Harvard, facing west, sat peacefully as an American flag waved softly overhead; protesters, facing east, sung "We Shall Overcome" with fists raised defiantly...
...example, I would completely renovate Memorial Hall. On the exterior, I envision neon signs everywhere. Nothing jazzes up a place like neon. On the interior, I see plush red carpeting, subdued overhead lighting, and lots and lots of mirrors. None of that cheap velour stuff like you might see elsewhere...
...scorched sands of Saudi Arabia, 180,000 American ground troops wait impatiently, cleaning their weapons, exercising, thinking of D-day. Flashing overhead are the best attack planes of the U.S. Air Force: F-15s, F-16s, radar-evading F-117 Stealth fighters. At sea, U.S. Navy Aegis cruisers train their Tomahawk cruise missiles on Iraqi targets, while aircraft carriers launch and recover squadrons of bombers and interceptors...