Word: planks
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...from pasta, and are trying to bring pasta-type glamour and growth to the humble potato so that Amalgamated can turn a humongous profit and be sold and make top management dizzyingly rich, is cutting costs by decimating the drones, and now it's your turn to walk the plank...
With only 20 members and services just once a month, New Liberty never played a part in the civil rights movement. But like every other black church in every other black community across the nation, the modest pine-plank structure meant something special to its congregation. "The church stands as a symbol of black pride and self-sufficiency,'' says Rose Sanders, a black lawyer in Selma. "Burning one is as close as you can come to a lynching without killing somebody...
...Bruce. "But then I listened to African-American people being interviewed after the verdict, and I realized that we had overlooked injustice to people of color." NOW's national resolution decrees that "NOW commits itself to intense internal examination of its own residual racism.'' But it is a controversial plank. "This is just some black leaders in NOW intimidating the white leaders,'' says Michigan NOW member Tracy Ann Martin. "I'm not afraid of being called a racist. My credentials go back too far.'' Asks Toni Carabillo, national vice president of the Feminist Majority, who has been active...
RESIGNING. ERIC OBER, 53, president of CBS News; in New York City. Ober walks the plank after five rocky years at the helm, piloting the network's news division through the rough seas of cost cuts, declining ratings and the ill-fated pairing of shipmates Connie Chung and Dan Rather...
...occasion, Dole has drawn that line, as he did Sept. 8, when he appeared before the Christian Coalition's annual "Road to Victory" convention. Phil Gramm had spoken earlier and challenged the audience to demand that Dole, like Gramm, sign a pledge promising to support an antiabortion plank in the G.O.P.'s 1996 platform. When Dole arrived, several dozen members of the audience waved photocopies of the pledge and shouted, "Sign it!" Dole refused. "Don't look at pledges," he said. "Look at records...