Word: shootout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Translation: Backe got word that he was under scrutiny and demanded an explanation from Paley. The showdown situation turned into an executive shootout on the 35th floor of the CBS Building. Says one industry source: "It wasn't even gentlemanly. It was a real showdown...
...through the ranks during golfs boom era. The son of a wealthy Kansas City insurance broker, Watson decided to make golf his career before he graduated from Stanford in 1971. By then the PGA had established a qualifying school in which the pros have to survive a hair-raising Shootout before earning the right to compete on the tour. After that they become "rabbits," harried journeymen who must scramble through early morning rounds to qualify for each individual tournament. Freedom from this grind is granted only to those who win a tournament or become one of the top 60 money...
...Afghan-manned tanks and Afghan troops with fixed bayonets and automatic rifles in ostensible charge. But Kabul is not yet quiet, or beaten. There is nightly gunfire on the outskirts, and there were two major military incidents during the week. Precisely at noon one day, there was a considerable Shootout a few blocks from the mosque of Haji Yaqub, known as the blue mosque. A house-to-house search by Afghan soldiers and police had been going on in residential streets behind the mosque, long a "suspect" neighborhood, when the shooting broke out between troops and the inhabitants...
...ineffectiveness was the fact that the Cabinet was riddled with dissension and palace intrigue. Despite official Afghan denials, for instance, there were persistent reports that Karmal's Vice President, Sultan Ali Kishtmand, had perhaps died in Moscow, where he was supposedly flown for medical treatment following a Shootout among members of the Revolutionary Council. Another rumor, that Karmal's own younger brother and adviser Mahmoud Baryalai, had also died of bullet wounds, was squelched only after he popped up on Soviet television with assurances that "I am alive and well...