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Ingram made a perfectly timed rush to the high slot when she saw junior winger Lauren McAuliffe holding the puck just onside at the point. In the blink of an eye, the puck was in the back of the net, as Ingram one-timed a McAuliffe pass with expert precision...
...Cooper could carry only a measly two. The manager was too nice to say anything but began gradually cutting her hours until she was almost de facto fired. So Cooper's dad bought her some weights, and she began training. Sure enough, she started to reclaim hours. "She'd rush home and put on that tacky uniform and go off to the little Golden Corral," says Cooper's mother in her most bemused Mississippi drawl. Today Cooper triumphantly recalls what the manager told her after several weeks: "I did everything I could to make you quit. You were the worst...
Internal auditors, by definition, work in pursuit of a gotcha. So discoveries like this produce a strange "adrenaline rush," says a WorldCom audit employee, "and at the same time, there's a great sadness." Cooper's mother Patsy could see that the investigation had taken its toll. "I noticed a change in her countenance," she says. "There was no cadence to her speech. I noticed a lack of, well, it seemed to be energy...
When her name was leaked in early January, Watkins initially felt a rush. "People were high-fiving. They were pumped and said, 'Attagirl,'" she recalls. She signed autographs in Starbucks; her husband Rick jokingly referred to himself as "Mr. Sherron Watkins." Their daughter Marion, 2, ran around the living room squealing, "Mommy's on the news again." One morning a maintenance crew arrived to move her back up to an executive office...
Driving the oil rush are the prospect of higher prices and Washington's search for reliable oil suppliers outside the Middle East. European companies such as TotalFinaElf and Royal Dutch/Shell have long been players in the region but leading the new charge are U.S. giants ExxonMobil and ChevronTexaco and independents such as Amerada Hess, based in New York...