Word: pinned
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...half-hour speech (delivered without notes) that was by turns funny, sincere, self-deprecating and boosterish, Powell tried to assure the pin-striped set that his military experience would help in an agency whose morale has plunged in recent years. "My background leads me to believe that the commanders in the field are always right," he said, to laughter and applause. Addressing the overseas audience, he added, "You're right, and those of us back here at C Street are generally wrong." He said the staff would be treated like professionals and held to high standards. If you perform...
According to David Wamback, practice manager of ID, data and PIN services for the University, the problem has been traced to a faulty machine that the manufacturer uses to apply the magnetic stripes to the cards. He said this is the first year the problem has occurred...
...Republican Senate source. As Governor, Ashcroft could make policy by signing an Executive Order, casting his veto or using his bully pulpit. But to make policy in the Senate, he had to cajole and flatter fellow Senators--skills Ashcroft had never mastered. He could also be hard to pin down ideologically: he fought for flex time for workers and cutting regressive payroll taxes. Ashcroft's greatest liability, says a Republican warrior working on his defense, "is the rigidity. There are issues on which there is no other hand. That is what may catch some people up short...
RECOVERING. RONALD REAGAN, 89, from surgery to repair a broken right hip sustained in a fall at his home; at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif. Reagan, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, had a large metal pin and plate implanted in the hip, secured by a series of screws...
...industry has a poster boy, it's Reiji, a career host and owner of Player's Club Dios. Parked on a rear banquette, Reiji surveys his kingdom in a pin-striped, three-piece Gianfranco Ferre suit and rimless spectacles, looking like a dashing young CEO?which, in fact, he is. Reiji's two host bars gross $8 million a year and he's planning a chain of clubs and restaurants. He has authored two books aimed at businessmen and speaks at universities and to corporations. "I am called the 'King of Hosts,'" he says, "but the reason they want...