Word: steve
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other officers were suddenly shifted to newly created sales jobs that they suspected were way stations on the road to dismissal. Cole Taylor Bank denied any wrongdoing, insisting that all were welcome to stay on in the new sales positions. Said the bank's attorney Steve Levin: "The real quarrel is, they didn't like the new positions." Carbone did indeed quit, but she could get only one other banking job, and that ended after 10 months. For seven months she worked nights as a hotel receptionist, earning $6.50 an hour--not enough to keep her from declaring personal bankruptcy...
...days Time it took millionaire balloonist Steve Fossett to sail 15,202 miles on his failed attempt to circle the earth...
Tomorrow is the opening night of '54', the narco nostalgia flick starring Mike Myers as Steve Rubbell, and you might want to stay on this side of the velvet rope: Word is the film's a stinker...
...Steve Torres, an Arizona naturalist and the author of the book Mountain Lion Alert, has formulated some advice. Do not run from a lion--they recognize prey by flight. Yell and scream instead. Eye contact, too, establishes a threat to the cougar, or you may wave it away. Raise your arms to make yourself seem bigger than you actually are. If in a group, band together and pick up the children. If you are with pets, forget about them. Defend your children. And if the lion attacks, fight back, brandishing a threatening object--knife, branch, stick...
Last week some media watchers speculated that Fuller's installation was provoked in part by Conde Nast CEO Steve Florio's machismo. Poaching the enemy can appear heroic. As an editor of a major women's magazine put it, "There's been so much bad press about him he had to change the dial." (Florio took a beating in a recent FORTUNE piece that accused him of atrocious management and of lying about the profitability of Conde Nast publications...