Word: poole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Grave Line does not neglect the stately homes of more traditional Hollywood sight-sees. The hearse cruises past Jayne Mansfield's "pink palace," the one with the heart-shaped swimming pool, where the cantilevered comedian dwelt at the time she literally lost her head in a car crash. It decelerates outside Elizabeth Taylor's current home, which belonged to Frank Sinatra when his son was kidnaped and held for $240,000 ransom. It motors around the corner, past Ronald and Nancy Reagan's retirement villa. The original address was 666 St. Cloud Street, but because 666 is the number...
...stunning progress. Japan has other advantages that may be more difficult for the U.S. to imitate: first-rate technical-training programs, intense corporate loyalty among its work force, and a culture that confers high status on manufacturers and engineers. But a little Japanese-style teamwork, in which companies pool their resources on long-term research, could do wonders in the U.S. "The Japanese don't share all their secrets either," says John Young, CEO of Hewlett-Packard. "They get people to develop the basic technology, and then they go home and build like crazy...
...first-floor "entertainment center" he can choose among 80-plus buttons on three remote controls and switch from the Bang & Olufsen stereo system to the large- screen TV set, to the VCR or CD player, and back again. The basement offers a Jacuzzi, poker table, small black pool table and six-hole putting green...
...John Eddy of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. This could be done by launching an International Earthwatch Program, possibly under the aegis of the United Nations, to coordinate multinational research projects and centralize essential data on the state of the world. Such an umbrella program could pool the results of hundreds of existing research efforts. A prime candidate for this program would be the Mission to Planet Earth, recommended by former astronaut Sally Ride, which would use NASA facilities to study the earth from space. In addition to improving knowledge of the earth's ills, an International...
...could have crippled Drexel, the fifth largest U.S. securities firm. Before the deal can be completed, however, Giuliani stipulated, a 184- page civil complaint that the Securities and Exchange Commission brought against Drexel in September must be settled by Jan. 10. The SEC could conceivably ask for a larger pool of money to compensate alleged victims, who range from ordinary stockholders to Drexel's clients. Even so, Giuliani declared Drexel's fines and concessions "appropriate punishment." He added, "You do not put corporations in prison...