Word: phils
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...started court action against Belgium, which is accused of obstructing wheelchair imports by rigging social security payments to favor Belgian manufacturers. BOTTOM LINES "Our research shows the average male in the U.S. owns one pair of jeans that are 10 years old and one size too small." Phil Marineau, Levi Strauss CEO, explaining why the company is launching a brand to be sold in discount stores "Your middle name must be Teflon." George Mudie, British M.P., on how the country's chief statistician survived after his office made a $67 billion accounting error "We had been promised a great leap...
...Minh City. But her boyfriend, Ngo Quang Hai, is an actor. And one day she accompanied him to an audition for The Quiet American. Yen's simmering stillness caught a casting director's eye?isn't this how Cinderella stories go??and she was introduced to director Phil Noyce...
...many respects, Parker is like current Los Angeles Lakers’ coach Phil Jackson—subdued and semi-mysterious. Never in-your-face, he is always laid back, allowing his silence to speak volumes and never fully articulating what is on his mind. Even without significant effort on his part, his legendary status motivates his rowers...
...Phil Anschutz, the billionaire founder and former chairman of Qwest Communications, could be the next corporate chieftain forced into the congressional spotlight on boardroom greed. Anschutz has thus far avoided a hearing by privately convincing investigators he had no role in his company's day-to-day operations--including deals in which the Denver telephone company allegedly booked phantom revenue. But Qwest's ex-CEO Joseph Nacchio, in little-noticed testimony last week before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said he had consulted Anschutz on all major decisions. Now committee staff members plan to question Anschutz again...
...four sounds heard - a drum slamming, "Bum. Ba-bum. Pow!" with the clock of castanets on the fourth beat - tell the audience that the music aims directly at pastiche, for those are the first four notes of "Be My Baby," the Jeff Barry-Ellie Greenwich song from which producer Phil Spector and arranger Jack Nitzsche created a sonic masterpiece for the Ronettes. (Martin Scorsese recognized the power of this opening: he used it at the start of "Mean Streets.") A few bars later, the first syllables uttered in the show - a cutting "Wuh. Uh. Oh." for the song "Good Morning...