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...dorsal fins of sharks implacably circling it. Death Ship Runover by a '66 Lincoln Continental, 1966, refers not to World War II but to Vietnam, a war Westermann hated and opposed. The auto that has just run over the ship (and, by implication, its men) with an inked tire tread is the same model that belonged to Westermann's father-in-law; it was also a favorite limo of American politicians at the time...
...Good news. Main Street, of course, is Wall Street?s closest place to heaven these days; Mr. and Mrs. American Consumer, in continuing to go where Mr. and Mrs. CEO fear to tread - namely, the marketplace - have kept the economy?s pulse going since January and will likely have to keep it up for the rest of the year if we?re to avoid paying for the dot-com boom with a bona fide recession...
...pearly everlasting, wild madder, bouncing bet, tread-softly, lopseed, dodder, virgin's bower, smaller pussytoes...
...Andrew Marshall, who has been scaring the calcified Pentagon hierarchy for decades, was put in charge of the review. And the administration's big guns - Bush, Cheney, Powell and once-and-current Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld - had the clout to make bold and necessary changes where Clinton feared to tread...
...than the 30-to-35 p.s.i. that Firestone normally used in its tires--to produce a more road-gripping ride. This created friction between Ford and Firestone after last year's recall, with Firestone insisting that the low pressure had increased the heat on the tires and caused the tread separations...