Word: restlessness
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...played baseball until dusk, and then I read. I read before dinner, after dinner, even during dinner if my sister and I were feuding. (The pages of certain volumes from my childhood are maroon with catsup stains.) When I was especially tired or restless, I reread, with the result that I can still recite passages of Johnny Tremain and The Willie Mays Story from memory...
Compared with that past, indeed, the girls' careers are nothing much, just jobs that pay them enough to replace their former undergraduate scruffiness with low-budget chic. Otherwise, their work makes them vaguely restless in ways that are scarcely worth discussing. This is not to say that frequent flashbacks to the bad old days--when the pair lived, squabbling and self-obsessed, in a rundown flat above a Chinese takeout restaurant--are finally any more conclusive. Or that the girls' chance encounters with figures out of that past--a slick, careless lover they once shared; a weird, enormous former roommate...
There's no reason to celebrate the demise of the Marlboro Man. He's simply living abroad. I've just returned from Guatemala, where an artful TV ad begins with a nighttime storm, stampeding cattle, restless horses and men saddling up to enact a fantasy of real men's work. At the end, machismo served and calm restored, the handsome hero lights up...his Marlboro. Why am I not surprised? Developing nations have long served as dumping grounds for everything from banned pesticides to Dalkon Shields. We've got to invent mechanisms for ensuring that multinational corporations maintain the same...
...helped keep him quiet. In 1995, with tobacco companies embroiled in a massive suit with state attorneys general, Philip Morris came knocking on the door of his financially troubled company. The larger firm said it would generously help out with Liggett's legal bills if LeBow would keep his restless conscience out of court. Philip Morris "didn't pay his bills out of the goodness of their heart," charged attorney Stanley Rosenblatt, who is representing flight attendants suing the tobacco industry over second-hand smoking ills suffered in airplanes. "That was a means of buying his silence and his cooperation...
...YORK: After yesterday's public trashing by AT&T of outgoing president John Walters, TIME's Daniel Kadlec says the company's normally patient investors are growing restless. "CEO Bob Allen can't decide whether he's going to retire or stay. He can't decide on a successor. He has big merger plans (with Bell company SBC Communications), which the government won't let him carry out. Now he's coming out and saying, 'The guy I picked isn't smart enough for the job.' There's lots of room for investors to wonder whether this company will...