Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...village," notes Karl Frehsner, head coach of the Swiss men's team. And the village oompah band, for which Zurbriggen once played trumpet, quite rightly keeps him on its list of musicians. "That's what I really enjoy," he says. "Any music, except this modern rock stuff because there's no melody to it." He has a quick, shrewd intelligence -- "the mind of a businessman," states Frehsner approvingly -- and he is not at all fearful of the world. But he is rooted so solidly in Saas-Almagell that he is not thrown off-balance by adulation and press clamor...
...action. "Euthanasia is practiced," says Washington Internist Jon Wiseman. "But usually it's done in a more passive kind of way, by withholding treatment -- not by putting someone to sleep like a dog." Do doctors commonly make that kind of decision alone? "No one talks about that kind of stuff," he says. Manhattan Internist Eric Cassell, who prefers not to pass moral judgment on mercy killing, believes that if it does occur, it should be only because the "circumstances are impossible to change or bear -- not merely because the patient is depressed...
...Toyota and drove from Denver to Boulder, where practice ice has been made available. She is supposed to be on a sabbatical from Stanford but could not resist several courses last semester at the University of Colorado. "I'm used to a suicidal load, calculus, chemistry and stuff -- I whale on it. I took German here just for fun, and I've had a blast." Of course, her study of German is not entirely ! idle. "I want to speak a little of it to Katarina. She's all right, I like her. I can't exactly say we're friends...
...have sparred with raiders ranging from T. Boone Pickens to Carl Icahn and have invented strategies like the "Pac-man" defense, in which a raided company turns around and gobbles up its attacker. Almost every corporate battle in which they have been involved has become the stuff of high drama, from Du Pont's $7.4 billion takeover of Conoco in 1981 to Canadian Robert Campeau's current $5.5 billion bid to acquire Federated Department Stores...
...drinking is a safe solution. "I let my son share a beer with me once in a while," says one Manhattan father. "I think it's working. I've heard him boast to friends that he drinks with Dad, does not need to lie and sneak around for the stuff...