Word: pacificism
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When Drexler showed up at J. Crew in 2003, no one was doing much of anything. Sales had dropped four out of five years running; the company's majority owner, private-equity firm Texas Pacific Group, had changed CEOs like last season's fashions, three in five years. On Drexler...
Consider all that happened in the first remarkable months at the beginning of 1848. On Jan. 24, gold was discovered accidentally on a river in Northern California--the first fleck of what would quickly become more than a thousand tons. Nine days later, a treaty was signed ending the U.S...
And you're freaked out because your computer might hiccup this weekend as it copes with the premature arrival of Daylight Saving Time? Be thankful you weren't screaming across the Pacific Ocean in the U.S. Air Force's newest jet, the $330-million F-22 Raptor. Six of the...
The 12-hour flight marked the first international deployment of the F-22, which is destined to replace the aging F-15 Eagle as the Air Force's top fighter plane. But about a third of the way through the Feb. 10 flight, anomalies began affecting the Global Positioning System...
Everything seemed to have been going well last year. In May 2006, Admiral William J. Fallon, then combatant commander for U.S. forces in the Pacific (CINCPAC) - and now the chief overseeing the more fraught theater that includes both Iraq and Afghanistan - visited four cities during an official tour of China...