Word: spits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...battle could be the last hurrah for the spit-and-polish Araskog, 65, a lanky 6-ft. 2-in. Minnesotan of Swedish stock who still towers over the company he has led since 1979. During that time, he has sought to transform himself from a poster boy for overpaid executives to a self-styled champion of shareholder rights. Yet Araskog, who served the National Security Agency as an interrogator of Soviet defectors in the '50s, can't seem to help treating everyone from Hilton CEO Stephen Bollenbach to ITT shareholders as if they might really be agents of a subversive...
...recall sneering under my breath and shaking my fist at the screen, squelching the urge to spit in disgust. The American people should be so lucky that they worry about universal access to something called the Internet. This was coming from an administration that had failed to feed its poor or house its veterans. The prospect of the Web in West Virginia and the Usenet in Utah seemed like the classic tactic of bread and circus, only without enough bread to go around...
...nearing nightfall, and the cemetery caretaker's wife was worried: her husband had not come home from work. She called the police, who headed out to Finn's Point National Cemetery, on a spit of New Jersey 30 miles south of Philadelphia. They arrived to find a grim tableau. The caretaker, William Reese, was there--with a bullet through his head. His red Chevrolet truck was missing. In its place, eerily, was a dark-green Lexus...
...town (pop. 22,176) holds as much superstition as celebration. Stuart Orem manages the 142,000-sq.-ft. Wal-Mart on the city's vast, booming commercial strip, built 18 months ago on what was once a lovely cornfield. His office is lined with computers that every day spit out new evidence about a windfall he doesn't quite believe in. "I don't think it's hit this area yet," he says of the economic boom, one day after his sales of patio furniture jumped 100% over the same day last year. The next morning, Charles and Shirley Warner...
Lately, however, those failures have become nearly intolerable. After the fire, the crew had to live in gas masks for two days until Mir's air was breathable. When the coolant system failed, the station had to be rotated like a pig on a spit to keep it from overheating in the sun. In April, Congress began work on a budgetary amendment that would require NASA to certify Mir's safety before more Americans go aloft. Russia appears to realize that it will either have to scuttle the ship or invest the money to fix it properly. While Moscow...