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...over in moments. The Boghammar blazed, then sank from view. The two small boats flared too, then drifted. The Corvette sped off toward Farsi. Arriving in two Mark III Sea Specter patrol boats, Navy SEAL commandos rushed to pluck survivors out of the water. They found six Iranian sailors, but three were badly injured and two of them died after being taken to the U.S.S. Raleigh, some 70 miles southeast of the wreckage site. The two small boats were taken under tow. Just how many Iranians were killed in the attack was not known...
With their ready-to-eat chicken products, the fowl combatants hope to pluck some feathers from such fast-food chains as McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's. "They have siphoned off about 20% of supermarket poultry sales in the past five years," estimates Kent Hill, a marketing executive for Holly Farms. That is an increasingly important market share, as chicken begins to surpass beef in the American diet. Dinah Shore, the Tennessee-born singer and cookbook author, is the spokeswoman for Holly Farms Foods, which last week launched its oven-roasted chickens with a celebrity bash at Manhattan...
...search to fill the post has begun and "it is quite possible that it will be filled by someone from within the school," said K-School spokesman Steve Singer. He said he did not know from what area of government the K-School might pluck the professor...
Miller has concocted a fable that reassures several constituencies of readers. Feminists can applaud the pluck of the heroine and the swinishness of the men who oppress her. Moralists can point with satisfaction to the grueling consequences of Anna's licentiousness, the anxiety, humiliation and the trial itself, what she calls "the price I had to pay." And the novel generates enough suspense to tug even those readers who know they are being hoodwinked into its wake. But a shuffling of cliches does not qualify as a literary breakthrough. The author seems skillful enough to have tried something truly daring...
...office he frequently wheels around in a swivel chair to pluck a fact or figure from the IBM PC AT perched behind his big wooden desk. In the backseat of his chauffeured sedan, he taps away on the keyboard of a notebook-size Hewlett-Packard, stopping only when a sharp turn sends the little computer sliding off his knees. At home in bed, he parks the portable computer on his ample lap and reviews financial statistics, occasionally looking up to watch Ted Koppel on ABC's Nightline...