Word: tails
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Olympic trials. "Watching a competition you felt you could win," O'Brien said of the Barcelona Olympics, "was worse than getting picked last in gym class." This time around, O'Brien had no trouble with the pole vault. But he still had Frank Busemann, 21, of Germany on his tail as he headed across the infield for his ninth event, the javelin. For that, O'Brien got some helpful advice from none other than Dave Johnson, his Reebok-created nemesis from '92. "Dave's the javelin expert," said Dan, "so I yelled at him, 'Which...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Someone is twisting the old man's tail. In a July 31 letter leaked to the Associated Press Friday by an unnamed Pentagon source, Defense Secretary William Perry railed against Defense Department employees who are deliberately leaking classified information to the press, and called in the FBI to put a stop to it. When classified information is made public, wrote Perry in the leaked memo, it undermines U.S. intelligence sources and methods, and can put the lives of our spies in danger. While the FBI is in charge of tracking down the leakers, Perry ordered Pentagon managers...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Someone is twisting the old man's tail. In a July 31 letter leaked to the Associated Press Friday by an unnamed Pentagon source, Defense Secretary William Perry railed against Defense Department employees who are deliberately leaking classified information to the press, and called in the FBI to put a stop to it. When classified information is made public, wrote Perry in the leaked memo, it undermines U.S. intelligence sources and methods, and can put the lives of our spies in danger. While the FBI is in charge of tracking down the leakers, Perry ordered Pentagon managers...
...tell as Vitali took to perform. While the soap opera content of the Games has been growing ever since ABC's Roone Arledge invented "Up Close and Personal" for the 1972 Games, this year the mush quotient is out of control. The Dick Enberg Moment has become the tail wagging the dog. The spot on fencer Peter Westbrook prevailing over his humble beginnings ran four minutes, and we saw only three seconds of Westbrook actually jousting...
Boeing's top official for international development, Lawrence Clarkson, insists the company would have fewer jobs for Americans if it did not abide by China's demands: for example, in shifting half of the tail-section production for its 737s from Wichita, Kansas, to Xian. "If we hadn't moved work to China," Clarkson says, "we wouldn't have got orders." China is expected to spend $185 billion on commercial aircraft over the next 20 years...