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...reputation. Kidder owner General Electric was rumored to be pondering whether to dump the poorly performing financial house, especially in light of recent allegations that the company's leading bonds trader had dramatically inflated actual profits. GE seems more committed than ever: along with the management shuffle, it recently sunk an additional $200 million into the enterprise...
...around, he presented his little-known face to America on a hot New Orleans afternoon in 1988, just hours after Vice President George Bush announced that he would choose the junior Senator from Indiana as his running mate. The news, which stunned even Bush's top aides, had hardly sunk in when a hyperexcited Quayle threw an arm around Bush's shoulders during a riverboat rally later that day and shouted, "Go get 'em!" The inelegance of the moment set the tone for things to come...
...wasn't until I reached college that it sunk in for me that Aaron was suffering from an eating disorder. It was only then that I found out the "true" story, through a friend--that Aaron's' bewildered parents had quietly slipped him into therapy, that he'd been kicked off the swim team until he gained the lost weight back, an that he spend a month with the threat of hospitalization over his head. He never the years that followed. but then, why should he have? I had female friends in high school with eating disorders that were tactfully...
Think of them as a matched pair of undersea loudspeakers, one sunk off the coast of California near Big Sur, the other near the Hawaiian island of Kauai. A blast from one of these big woofers would be loud enough to be heard in the water for thousands of miles--and loud enough to damage or destroy the hearing of any animal that swam too close...
...sunk about $18.9 million into the project, betting that advanced microtechnologies developed in the watch industry can be translated into innovative designs for a car's propulsion and electrical systems. "We're not trying to build some little gadget here," Hayek said on a private tour of the garage last December. "We want to have a consumer product that you can produce and use in the millions...