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...that bankroll comes from Los Angeles. "Stars, though, don't want to slum with the locals," says Brownstein. "They are at the pinnacle of their profession and want to deal at the highest levels. ((Disney CEO)) Michael Eisner wants to raise money for Bill Bradley, not some city supervisor...
...Ford, supervisor for the night, reads from an enormous government sourcebook. SafeStreets encourages people to work the same nights, so they get to know their night's regular supervisor. One of 12 supervisors, Ford usually works Mondays, but is covering for a friend on this Saturday night. All volunteers must find their own replacements if they are unable to work on a night for which they have signed...
What was the hang-up? In a word, says an Alyeska supervisor, "complacency." Lulled by almost twelve years of oil shipping through Valdez without a major accident, Alyeska let its old equipment run down to the point that it was taxed to the limit when it cleaned up a small spill of a mere 1,500 bbl. in January. Workers who had been hired to devote full time to combatting oil spills were replaced by people whose primary duties lay elsewhere. The state government failed to keep Alyeska up to the mark; the legislature denied its watchdog agency funds...
Waiting in the Columbus airport were about 100 people, including Adams' mother Mildred, a retired supervisor at a home for retarded children, and friends from her Baptist church with yellow ribbons around their necks. Adams plowed through the crowd to hug his mother and then the teary-eyed Morris. At the press conference, Adams' sister whispered in his ear that Texas had decided not to retry him. He squeezed his mother's hand so tightly his knuckles turned white...
Henderson will send the client's supervisor a status report and a schedule of goals: a new hairstyle by next Saturday, three new garments that work together by March 31, a diet and exercise regimen to shed five pounds a month through October. ("What will you do if you haven't got to 5 lbs. by the end of this month?" Henderson asks. "I'll just kill myself," the client jokes. Then she becomes corporate: "I'll re-evaluate.") Whether all this will win the client her promotion, Henderson cannot...