Word: ward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...acquisition would also give Sun a major headache, because Apple is arguably one of the worst-managed companies in the industry. Apple has a host of problems that need to be addressed immediately to ward off the doom that many people have predicted for years. Cleaning up that mess would tax Sun's management team, possibly beyond its capabilities, and could distract it from Sun's own successful business. Even if Sun could figure out how to solve the short-term problems, it would inherit all the bigger conundrums that have bedeviled Apple for most of its brilliant, exasperating life...
...Bentley Turbos, Mercedes S-class sedans and the usual Porsches and Lamborghinis, so boring, there was a Lost Safari of Land Rovers, Ford Explorers, Grand Cherokees and GMC Suburbans, all tricked out with steel brush guards, roof racks, off-roading spare-wheel mounts, and black-leather car bras to ward off gravel and grasshoppers on the Paris-Dakar run. Cedergren flashed his perception to his clients: "Cars are now history. The future belongs to trucks...
...records also reveal that Mrs. Clinton had at least 14 meetings on what regulators have described as a fictitious property deal called Castle Grande. Mrs. Clinton has told RTC investigators that she does not recall working on the transaction. According to the billings, Mrs. Clinton met repeatedly with Seth Ward, the father-in-law of Webster Hubbell, former Associate Attorney General now serving time in federal prison for bilking the Rose Law Firm. Ward, say investigators, was a sham purchaser of the 1,000-plus-acre plot south of Little Rock because the only security Madison required for the loan...
...ounces of methamphetamine for their own needs. In untrained or careless hands, the chemicals are a volatile stew that can explode if spilled onto a hot plate. Officials suspect that's what happened to Kathy James, who has not yet been charged and is now in a burn ward in San Bernardino...
Before police arrested Ward, his friend says, Ward phoned several former girlfriends and warned one that she had better sever a relationship with another man "if you don't want the same thing that happened to Debbie to happen to you." Another friend, Claudio Cabreja, says, "Vern was one of those guys, he'd be with a girl and think she shouldn't go out with anyone else." Evans' relatives allege that Ward, who has served time for domestic battery and drug dealing, beat Evans during their three-year relationship...