Word: puget
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Since 1945, Boeing has had only two top men: William Allen and T.A. Wilson, who took over as chairman in 1972. Wilson, like Allen before him, has run a tough, efficient operation with very few frills. While many Seattle offices look out on picturesque Puget Sound and snowcapped Mount Rainier, Boeing's corporate headquarters faces a railroad track and an airstrip in a grimy industrial zone. A down-to-earth Missourian, Wilson, 65, has been known to drop in on the machinists' annual Christmas party with one of his wife's pecan pies. During the airline-industry slump...
...Northwest has also become a smuggler's cove. In January the Coast Guard tracked the 195-ft. Honduran freighter Eagle One as it tried to sneak up the California coast toward Seattle. Just outside Puget Sound, drug agents boarded the ship and took it into dock, where they seized 447 lbs. of cocaine in a welded-shut compartment. Says Robert Dreisbach, spokesman for the Seattle office of the DEA: "The smugglers are moving away from the heavily patrolled ports, and we are particularly vulnerable because of our less dense population along an immense amount of coastline...
...direction could transform this dry tale into an honest, intense look at a family in crisis. Yorkin, however, does as much as he possibly can to curtail any such developments, repeatedly placing his characters against technicolor skies as they set off to build new lives across the rainbow in Puget Sound...
Vicki Clayton was headed for Seattle aboard the Puget Sound ferry when she remembered that her children's school was closing early that day. Undaunted, she simply picked up the phone and arranged for a baby-sitter. Clayton, a Bainbridge Island homemaker, thus availed herself of one of the latest benefits of the information age: pay phones on public transportation...
...gang's founder, Robert J. Mathews, 31, was killed during a gunfight with federal agents on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound last Dec. 7. A companion of Mathews, Gary Lee Yarbrough, 29, is a suspect in the murder last June 18 of Alan Berg, an outspoken Jewish radio talk-show host in Denver. Authorities say that members of The Order, which is also known as the Silent Brotherhood and the White American Bastion, were also involved in counterfeiting. Says Montana FBI Agent Toby Harding: "These are dangerous, violent people." Declares Idaho Undersheriff Larry Broadbent: "They actually believed that a revolution...