Word: rick
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...because the ad wars are turning Madison Avenue into a shelled-out battleground where huge chunks of business are blasted loose and flying around, creating career casualties when they land. At Burnett, a boardroom coup in March toppled CEO Bill Lynch and his protege, Jim Jenness, and restored chairman Rick Fizdale...
...raid on Rick Arritola's mink farm in Mount Angel, Ore., was carried out with military precision. Working under cover of darkness, a small group of antifur activists cut through a wire-mesh fence, pepper-sprayed a watchdog, bypassed an alarm system, opened cages and set free as many as 10,000 scurrying animals, most of them destined to be made into sleek, high-priced fur coats. It was a daring act of ecovandalism, perhaps the largest illegal animal release in U.S. history...
...Turnover makes anything difficult," said Coordinator of Residential Support Rick Osterberg '96. "You lose your internal consistency when you bring new people in and they have to catch-up and we have to get used to their needs and our environment...
...this recantation--as unusual as it was--did not knock the struts out of the story entirely. Ceppos noted that Webb's reporting was "right on many important points." The series did, for example, establish a link between one of the most notorious L.A. drug dealers--"Freeway Rick" Ross--and Nicaraguan suppliers who were admitted supporters of the contras. And while strongly hinting at CIA knowledge of the drug connection, the story never explicitly made that claim...
...week, his weekly rate is $259,200. And if he takes an annual four-week vacation, he still works 48 weeks and gets a salary of $12,441,600. It costs the company $15 every time the CEO takes time out for a drink of water. RICK ROFMAN Van Nuys, Calif...