Word: tiring
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...death inevitable because, of course, it was so absurd. She thinks she was preparing herself for a time without him: like the day in August when she asked him for the password to access the family budget on Microsoft Money, or when she inquired about how to change a tire and he sent her an AAA card embossed with her own name--not his. The narrative turns on the night of Sept. 10. Greg got home later than usual, so Nicole picked out a shirt and pants for him to put on the next day. He got dressed and left...
...last summer, the company's fortunes were souring quickly. The Firestone tire crisis had scorched Ford's image, whether or not Ford's Explorer SUV was partly at fault. The company launched a redesigned Explorer in January. The new machine exceeds safety requirements, and critics of the old Explorer, including Consumer Reports, hailed the new design as safe and efficient. But, like several other new vehicles over the last two years, the Explorer had initial quality problems and several thousand were recalled. The Explorer was the latest on a list that included the award-winning Ford Focus, the popular...
...INTEREST RATES Bonds, money-market funds and other interest-paying investments haven't carried yields this low since the 1960s. For income, it may make more sense to own a stock like Bandag, a profitable industrial-tire company with a dividend yield of 4.6%?about the same as on long-term Treasury bonds...
...INTEREST RATES Bonds, money-market funds and other interest-paying investments haven't carried yields this low since the 1960s. For income, it may make more sense to own a stock like Bandag, a profitable industrial-tire company with a dividend yield of 4.6%--about the same as on long-term Treasury bonds...
...little to do with bows and arrows. In August, coaches forced the nation's top male and female archers to attend a four-day Navy commando training camp at a military base in southwest Korea. Kim easily dealt with hiking along an open sewage ditch, sprinting with a car tire strapped to her back, floating for half an hour in frigid ocean waters and rolling commando-style in mud. But when coaches blindfolded her in the dead of night, took her to a crematorium and told her to fetch bones from the ovens, she almost lost it. Says the tanned...