Word: phils
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...Phil Gross and Robert Atchinson, the heads of the Select Equity team and two of HMC’s most senior analysts with 18 and 16 years experience at HMC respectively, will head up the new venture...
...best hope for an outcome resembling victory: This week, the Senate defeated (by a vote of 56-43) a Republican-sponsored amendment to eliminate employer liability in health care lawsuits. "They concluded that the benefits of letting people sue the employer were much smaller than the potential cost," sponsor Phil Gramm said after the vote. The Senate also defeated (61-39) a move by Iowa's Charles Grassley to send the Democrats' bill back to committee (a classic stall tactic...
...most ominous invitation since Travis Coates asked Old Yeller to join him for a walk, SHARON STONE invited her husband, San Francisco Chronicle executive editor PHIL BRONSTEIN, to take a behind-the-scenes tour of the L.A. Zoo. As part of the tour, Bronstein was induced to enter the cage of a KOMODO DRAGON and remove his white sneakers, which a keeper thought the giant lizard might mistake for white rats. The dragon promptly chomped down on Bronstein's big white toe, sending him to the hospital for major surgery. More surprising than the gullibility of a hardened newsman...
...move the animal into quarantine, because if what you said is true, that he's mild mannered, we need to find out if it's a medical reason why it's not mild mannered today. We need you to keep this animal in quarantine for the duration of Phil's recovery in case something should happen to him so we have access to blood tests...
...first thing the zoo did was a fundraiser with the dragon on display, making jokes. And you know, Phil is home after five days in the hospital, but he's in a hospital bed at home with IVs of antibiotics. This not like, he got his little toe nipped and he's skipping around and everything's fine. The zoo has not only not done [sensationalized press and no quarantining], they have actively done the opposite and I'm really surprised. What's shocking to me is that they're continuing these visits with animals that are known...