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...Group. And Economy Minister Wolfgang Clement said this month he wants the firm to remain German. Carlyle is betting that the MTU-Fiat combination may be the "European solution" needed to satisfy the Germans. Milking The Customer Voters in Seattle, Washington, are steamed over a September ballot proposal to slap a 10? surcharge on any espresso-based coffee sold. The "latte tax" would help fund child-care and preschool programs...
...CHOKING Don't slap someone who is choking on the back. You could force the offending object farther down the windpipe. As long as a person is coughing (or talking), he or she is still breathing, and coughing forcefully is usually the best way to dislodge a piece of food. Use abdominal thrusts, also known as the Heimlich maneuver, only if the choking victim stops breathing...
Witnessing what is going on in the U.S. now is a slap in the face to all the nations that have agreed to shut down their nuclear-weapons programs in order to contribute to the world's safety. DIMITRI NAROS Piraeus, Greece...
...more hits for Harvard than Stefanchik, the team’s only first-team All-Ivy selection other than Whitton. The speedy slap hitter batted a team-best .389 for the year and stole 24 bases, one short of a school record...
That decision outraged members of the United Front, who called it “a kick in the teeth, a slap in the face,” and laid the groundwork for a conflict which would last well into the early 1980s...