Word: trenches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nearly zero. Its stock, riding high at $44 a year ago, was beaten down to $16 in last week's market rout, gutting the 401(k) retirement plans of many of its employees. "What I have in Harnischfeger stock is down by two-thirds," says a glum Dave Trench, 57, a machinery stock attendant at a Harnischfeger subsidiary in Nashua, N.H. "When I look at retirement, I might start to sweat." At least he still has his job--for now. Harnischfeger announced in late August that it soon will begin dismissing 3,100 employees, or a fifth of its work...
...Tuesday morning with no attorney and only a Secret Service retinue for company. But in practice, the President's lawyer and stonewalling supremo, David Kendall, looks set to keep Starr's subpoena at bay a little while longer. As one Kendall friend told TIME: "He knows how to fight trench warfare, and he's good...
...candy bowl on her desk, a cold cloth for the forehead, Betty Currie has been painted through this winter of scandal as a simple, sanctified sister of mercy. But she is also a puzzle, with a resume and reflexes that speak to lessons learned in 40 years of bureaucratic trench warfare. Is she too loyal ever to betray the President? Is she too honest ever to shade the truth? Kenneth Starr and Bill Clinton are each hoping that they know which side she will come down on--and the two sides couldn't be farther apart...
...sleeping bag, a carry-on bag and two duffels full of equipment. He traveled solo and avoided publicity so as not to raise too much fuss among Brevig's villagers. By the afternoon of Aug. 20, he and a local crew had begun digging, and they eventually produced a trench 6 ft. wide, 27 ft. long and 7 ft. deep. Hultin came across several bare skeletons before he hit pay dirt: the well-preserved body of a 30-year-old woman so obese that her fat had insulated her organs from the effects of decades of frost and thaw...
...Lewinsky--that the government could not compel me to testify before a grand jury about my daughter Courtney. Or, God forbid, vice versa. Courtney's led a fairly blameless life, after all. But oh, the things she's seen on my end: the excuse-making, the nightgown under the trench coat to drive the car pool, the panic every time I see a gray hair--and that's just the small stuff...