Word: pickering
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...believe we had an extremely serious problem but not a pervasive one," said Warren Buffett, the country's richest man and a great stock picker, brought in by Salomon to handle its damage control. The Sears version went as follows: "We strongly believe that these instances were isolated and there has been no pattern of this conduct." Sears also said, "In the automotive business, mistakes can and will occur...
Like Wallace, Frank Potts was a good neighbor to the 300 residents of Estillfork, Alabama. He helped widows cut wood and brought friends oranges from Florida, where he worked each year as a fruit picker. To some, he could sound like a preacher in full sermon. "I found Frank Potts to be the kind of person you could trust," says James Robert Henshaw, who once hired Potts to cut trees and haul wood. "I found Frank Potts to be just like...
...ideal reminder of Parton's status as a premier singer-songwriter. Her plaints, like I Will Always Love You (a recent chart tyrant for Whitney Houston), expand the reach of country music to both coasts and most places in between. But Parton is her own best interpreter. Country guitar picker Chet Atkins gives her this impish praise: "She has more talent than I've got in my little finger...
...traditional promise -- that, if you can get there, you may have a new beginning, regardless of bloodlines or station in life -- is most likely to be kept. That promise, however, is not fulfilled in the "when you wish upon a star" myth; it is fulfilled by the Okie strawberry picker who survived the Depression and bought a farm, by the New Yorker who built a chain of car washes, by the Vietnamese refugee who worked his or her way through Cal State Long Beach and became a physicist. In stressing its most trivial and least typical aspects, we miss...
...center on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay, Gladys Parks, 76, and her husband Bruce, 81, have seen the city go from white to black, then to Hispanic and Asian, and finally to mixed-white again on the gentrifying edge of the city. Bruce, a Stockton-born "prune picker," as native Californians are called, recalls having real misgivings when the "coloreds" first came to town during World War II. Today he and Gladys call the black family next door the best neighbors they've ever had. They've become such friends with their Chicano gardener that they...