Word: snow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rubin called John Snow, CEO of CSX Corp. that evening, asking him to activate the Business Roundtable, a group of business leaders concerned with public policy. The next day that organization asked ceos of more than 200 companies to contact an accompanying list of freshmen Republicans and push for support. Rubin and other officials began telephoning reporters and editors with spin. No one disputed that the stakes are high. Treasury's Rubin argued that if the loan guarantees were defeated, financial markets would panic in Mexico and in other emerging countries. ``You have the prospect of very serious ramifications...
...exams. For my midterm, I only studied for two days and I got a B. so, I will go shopping...at the J. Crew and L.L. Bean outlets in Maine. In fact, I'll make a little trip out of it and hit Killington, Vermont, too. There is snow there...
...would be nice to believe life is really like that: when you get old, you'll be fit and quick like Newman; if you neglect your savings, you'll finally hit your favorite trifecta; even though you live in some nowhere place, buried hip deep in snow for half the year, you'll be warmed by sweet, colorful friends who'll get up a game of strip poker when things turn a little dull...
...major headache could be winter weather. Narrow mountain roads are choked with snow. Foul weather would blind many of NATO's frontline aircraft, taking away NATO's technological superiority. Everything will be complicated by the cold. Troops will have to be clad in "overwhites" for camouflage and will need more food, more unfrozen water, more heating fuel. Miles of white netting will be required to shroud olive-drab military gear. Snow fouls weapons, and cold air produces large clouds of condensation when the weapons are fired, making it easy to pinpoint the shooter. Helicopter rotor blades whip up mini- blizzards...
...found the Jenny Craig weight-loss organization too full of, well, female chauvinist pigs. The girl talk in the office, says plaintiff Joseph Egan, about "who to marry, who is pregnant, how to get pregnant" was offensive, and it was sexist to ask his male colleagues to shovel the snow and insensitive to tell another he was "sensitive for a guy." These men found themselves on a slower track than their female colleagues, and so some of them quit, others were laid off and all of them filed complaints. Last week three of the plaintiffs cleared the first hurdle...