Word: sl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mercedes was one of her husband's few indulgences. Given the money they were making, the McDougals didn't live lavishly. Jim seemed indifferent to most of the trappings of wealth, but he loved clothes and cars, especially Mercedes. Before the 280-S he had owned a yellow 450-SL convertible. While driving with one of his close friends, future Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, he managed to beach the car on the dividing strip of North University Street in Little Rock, stopping traffic during rush hour. McDougal was unfazed, chatting with Tucker as though nothing had happened...
...Allis, in the Haitian capital, says the junta may be staying put because they fear their own troops. This morning, Allis says, Gen. Philippe Biamby, a junta member who almost never talks publicly, went on Haitian radio to quash rumors of a compromise in which the military triumvirate would sl...
Then there are individuals like Michael S.Pavloff '88, who concentrated in physics and wenton to become a gourmet chef at Boston'sL'Espalier. Pavloff's career choice was notmotivated by the physics job market, but rather bya genuine interest in cooking. L'Espalier's owner,a former government concentrator at Harvard,offered Pavloff a job during his senior year...
Much of the Army's heavy equipment, including hundreds of tanks and helicopters, will be delivered by sea -- the biggest bottleneck. The Navy has only eight SL-7 fast-logistics ships specifically designed for such work, and two have already broken down at sea; one is being towed across the Atlantic. In a pinch like this, the Navy is supposed to be able to reactivate its mothballed fleet of transport vessels. It has ordered up 41 of them, but so far only 25 have got under way. The Navy last week was chartering 15 American and foreign cargo ships...
Power Play--SL...