Word: ton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called into her boss's office. "We are eliminating your position," Cooper was told. At first the message did not quite register. "So where am I going?" she asked. The explanation that followed was painfully clear: she was being fired. Recalls Cooper: "It hit me like a ton of bricks. I was in a state of shock." Cooper, 44, had worked for IBM and one of its subsidiaries for 24 years. She was transferred to MCI when IBM bought a minority stake in the smaller firm last March. Even though Cooper got a severance package of nearly $38,000 from...
Pounding around Gage Roads in 25-ton yachts is more than just physically punishing. It is perilous. The blinding glare of the sun and the continual shower of salt spray are so forceful that both skippers have had serious trouble with their eyes. Conner was forced to consult a Perth specialist. Says ( Murray: "In the early races I was coming in every day with double vision. It's like having a saltwater hose going flat out into your face." Murray and crew now wear sunglasses, which must constantly be cleared of caked salt with squeeze bottles of fresh water. Kookaburra...
...respond to claims in the same speedy manner. The company's adjusters have been known to take extraordinary pains to assist clients in duress. After Hurricane Gloria hit the New England coast in 1985, one Amica homeowner policyholder was unable to get any government agency to remove a ten-ton tree that had fallen onto her house. When she called Amica for help, an adjuster came out and made arrangements the same day for a construction company to cart the tree away...
...Francisco's Pacific side is frequented mainly by surfers and dog walkers -- and now a prospector. Engineer John O'Grady, 71, believes this desolate spot may be one of the most valuable mineral sites on the West Coast. O'Grady thinks that the sand on Ocean Beach contains tons of titanium, a lightweight metal that the U.S. uses in plane fuselages and the Soviet Union has put into submarine hulls. Ocean Beach's titanium could help supply U.S. defense needs into the next century, says O'Grady -- and, at $40 or more a ton, could be a bonanza...
...ton of stuff to tell me," Peter Chiarelli says. "I can never please...