Word: tiring
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...navigates his days in a sip-and-puff wheelchair. But those signs are there: the 31-in. spaces between obstacles; the tall-legged dining-room table, allowing the whole family to pull up to dinner together; the stubbornly fraying seam in the living room carpet ("Tire damage," Reeve says with a laugh). But such easy domesticity was hard won for a man whose body suffered such a catastrophic insult...
Raised by a bookkeeper mother and tire-salesman father in Brockton, Mass., Feinberg was the family ham. He went to the University of Massachusetts with thoughts of becoming an actor until he considered the merits of a weekly paycheck and enrolled at New York University Law School. After clerking for New York Court of Appeals Judge Stanley Fuld in 1970, Feinberg landed a job in the office of Senator Edward Kennedy, and then took a job with a big firm. Feinberg was on his way to becoming "just another Washington lawyer," as he puts it, until a bit of acting...
BASIC INDUSTRY This highly cyclical group includes Dow Chemical, aluminum producer Alcoa, rubber company Goodyear Tire and metal benders like Caterpillar--outfits that make what sells well in an economic recovery. Because their earnings are volatile, a better way to value such companies is by looking at sales, says John Manley, market strategist at Salomon Smith Barney. Over the past 30 years, he says, this group has traded at a 10% discount to the price-to-sales ratio (price per share divided by sales per share) of the S&P 500. The discount today...
...Qaeda supporters, and some Middle East observers, believe U.S. counter-terrorism agents are behind the cyber attack. The goal, they suspect, is to turn away sympathizers who tire of endless changes to the "jihadi" URLs, and also to eliminate any possibility that such sites could be used by al-Qaeda members to communicate with each other via secret signals or hidden encrypted files. A U.S. counter-terrorism official confirms that Washington has an active campaign to exploit al-Qaeda's use of the Internet, and that the CIA monitors al-Qaeda web sites and those who use them...
...says, "We expect them to eat a little of everything." So beef is served nearly every night at the Brown homestead, with nary a squawk from Jeff, 17, Luke, 13, and Hannah, 11. But Jody admits to at least one liberal sympathy. "If a vegetarian got a flat tire in my community," he says, "I'd come out and help...