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Saunders says he provides the funds for theteam from his own pocket, and other members laterreimburse him. He adds that sometimes studentsquit the team after attending the competition andincurring expenses but before paying their dues...
Things are really nasty in Pleasantville these days. The Reader's Digest Association, best known for its pocket-size magazine, is in a state of protracted turmoil. The sputtering 76-year-old publisher founded to "inform, enrich, entertain and inspire people" has lately just incited a group of big-game-hunting shareholders, who want to see the Digest company restructured or sold. "This is a company that has been asleep," says Nell Minow, a principal of Lens, an activist Washington-based money manager with a substantial stake in the firm. "We are trying to bring them into the 20th century...
McLaughlin says she realized she had a real smoking problem when during one lunch time last year, she debated whether to spend the three dollars in her pocket for lunch at the Greenhouse or for a pack of cigarettes...
Winfrey put his letter in his pocket--in what he now calls a "pocket veto." Kuumba had won Winfrey's heart...
...that marijuana's primary active ingredient, THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), can be stored in the body's fat cells for relatively long periods and that "it's reasonable to assume that secondhand smoke could be absorbed." After the final ruling, Rebagliati remained cool, redisplaying the medal he had kept in his pocket during the three-day fracas. He said he would join in some antidrug campaigns but refused to condemn drugs outright. "I am definitely going to change my life-style. But I will not change my friends," he said. "I will stick by them." He added, "I may have to wear...