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...season no one would have given us a shot at finishing second, we have a good opportunity to raise some eyebrows," said Friedman. "This is the end of the season, it's time to prime the pump and wrestle our best. Brown's going to be tough, but we match up well and if we come out fired up, we should be able to take them...
...Discover cards would have looked preposterous just five years ago. These are not regular guys. Morgan's chairman, Richard B. Fisher, and CEO, John J. Mack, made $7 million each in 1995. Platinum-card material, wouldn't you say? Don't look for this pair at the self-service pump...
MOTHER OF THE YEAR: Jackie Onassis, whose posthumous auction helped pump up a surprisingly small estate...
...name for a film, Jerry Maguire is less a title than a label. But in its refusal to pump up the volume, it catches the quietly confident spirit in which this movie has been made. Neither Crowe nor his actors appear to be working hard for hilarity, high romantic tension or a melodramatic denouement. They make no attempt to either glamorize or deglamorize athletes and their hangers-on. There is a recognizable ordinariness about the way these people stumble in and out of trouble, in and out of grace--an ambiguous note, at once tart and sweet, knowing and innocent...
Texaco has long been a leader in corporate exploitation and environmental devastation, especially in developing countries such as Ecuador and Burma. Although its practices have little effect on Americans except to lower the price at the pump, any responsible citizen of the world should be out-raged at the company's reprehensible outward behavior as well as the racism within...