Word: ran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While calls went out to reporters all over town, Sperling ran up and down the stairs to the fax machine, sending out his memo and Panetta's statement. Drained and winded, he and his team had managed to contact all the people they wanted to by about 6:20. The response reached some reporters just as they were first hearing about the Dole proposal that sparked it. That night and the next day, many of the stories contained more about the response than about the original proposal. That is what counts...
...stealth and surprise. Even the Army's current manual on mines questions their usefulness, given the unpredictability of friendly troop movements. The military's most dramatic show of support for a ban came in April, when several prominent retired officers, including Norman Schwarzkopf, signed a full-page ad that ran in the New York Times. The ad called the prohibition "not only humane, but also militarily responsible...
Shortly after the ad ran, Shalikashvili began assembling a panel to investigate the value of mines to the U.S. But a new policy began to jell even before committee members could be chosen. With the White House concerned over the humanitarian issue and the brewing controversy, and many in the Pentagon already convinced by the antimine argument, Shalikashvili and the Joint Chiefs concluded that the U.S. should give up on mines (always excepting protection of South Korea and the Persian Gulf). Only the timing remains an issue. Since the military has accepted Leahy's moratorium for 1999, the White House...
When Louis Gerstner arrived as CEO of IBM nearly three years ago, industry insiders saw the company's also-ran computer-operating system, called OS/2 Warp, as a likely target for the corporate ax. With just 13 million users, far behind Microsoft Windows' 120 million, OS/2 seemed doomed. But instead of killing the project, Gerstner beatified it, assigning the company's top engineers to it and giving V.P. Wally Casey a blank check for development. The results of the effort, code-named Merlin, will begin shipping to beta testers in the next month...
...month after Franklin was born again, a Graham friend named Bob Pierce who ran an international-aid mission invited him on a remarkable two-month tour of the Far East that included China, Indonesia and India, with its "hundreds of millions of people," as Franklin writes, "locked in the darkness of Hinduism...bound by Satan's power." The combination of small planes and benighted heathens proved irresistible to a man whose maternal grandparents had been missionaries to China. Pierce died of leukemia three years later, and Franklin, who by then had graduated from college, married and become a father, took...