Word: talled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prowess as a strategic planner. Among other accomplishments, Gerstner launched the successful Platinum card. As chairman at RJR Nabisco, he will have to engineer the sale of about $8 billion in assets to pay off some of KKR's buyout borrowings. But his compensation will be as tall as his task: as much as $45 million over five years...
...four elderly and feisty women who emigrated from China to the U.S., and their grown, very Americanized daughters. "A girl is like a young tree," says one of the stern mothers, who explains to her daughter that she lacks the necessary wood in her character. "You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you . . . But if you bend to listen to other people, you will grow crooked and weak." The daughter does not ignore this old- country wisdom, "but I also learned how to let her words blow through...
...police report described the two male suspects in the Fogg incident as Asian, each in their mid-20s and weighing about 140 lbs. One man, approximately 5-ft. 8-in. tall, wore a white rugby shirt, while the other, approximately 6-ft. tall, wore a blue jacket, jeans and metal rim glasses, the report said...
...around Reese, the musical clatter and chatter of baseball training have revived Mesa, Ariz. In the distance a tall rookie without a right hand, No. 60, is sprinting. "This may be the age of the $3 million pitcher," says the old coach, "but the kids just showing up still have the same stars in their eyes. They keep looking down at the front of their shirts. Any day in a major league uniform is great." When No. 60 crosses into view, Reese whispers, "You know, he has as good a stuff as anybody in camp...
...Beat him up physically. Push him around. He's really tall, but he's really skinny. If you come up and check him hard, he'll back off," Murphy said...