Word: weather
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With the recent onslaught of winter weather, the Square has once more regained its New England character. But one thing is noticeably absent this January: No longer do scantily clad mannequins mock us from the windows of Pacific Sunwear...
...time Watkins arrived, Enron was fast shedding its image as a staid natural-gas-pipeline company. Trading chief Jeffrey Skilling and his financial whiz, Andrew Fastow, wanted to build a nimble, "asset-light" firm that could exploit deregulating markets for energy, water, weather derivatives, broadband capacity and anything else that could be turned into a commodity. The strategy spawned explosive growth. By 2000, Enron was the seventh largest company in America. The '90s were fat times for Enron, and the corporate culture oozed in excess. The company rented ski condos in Beaver Creek, Colo., and stocked each with a personal...
...Panhandle from Colorado to secretly scout locations for Global Pork Rind, an outfit based in Tokyo that wants to start vast hog farms. As you might expect, Dollar goes native. Along the way, he and the reader learn about skies "the color of cold tea" and endlessly shape-shifting weather. They find their way around places where the wet heat falls on you "like a barber's towel," where a meticulous local looks like a man "who spent his formative years in a trouser press" and where a cagey old woman brushes off Dollar's suspicious flatteries with "I have...
...days straight, King, 30, learned to operate a single-engine Cessna 172 under visual flight rules. "I was scared at the beginning, but now I love to fly," says King, a licensed pilot who is working toward a second certification that will allow him to fly in bad weather and at night by using the plane's instruments. "It's very relaxing being up there," he says. "Hey, it's cheaper than therapy...
Sari M. Poage ‘05, who served as Miss Teenage San Diego in 2001, said she looks forward to bonding with people who “understand” California—who, for example, could share her memories of high school class cancellations for good surfing weather...