Word: webb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, not the Joe Friday, Jack Webb's immortally stylized police professional, but rather old Joe's nephew, encased in the comical form of Dan Aykroyd. A true inheritor of the manners and morals of the '50s, he is a cop whose unhappy lot is to protect and serve the Los Angeles of the 1980s. To him, that is roughly equivalent to working the night watch out of Gomorrah...
...summers ago, these very same Gulls had probably the most celebrated cast in the USBL's brief history. Among their ranks that summer were Spud Webb, Manute Bol and John Williams, now all prominent NBA performers. Many a picture of teammates Webb, who stands 5-ft., 7-in., and Bol (7-ft., 6-in.) floated around that summer...
...track. One of the more fascinating races that involved obstacles was the 110 high hurdles. When I compared the height of the hurdles to the height of most of the athletes, I realized that only Manute Bol could possibly run the race without hurting himself. Maybe Spud Webb could run under the hurdles and achieve the same goal...
...both sides renewed the old battle, Lehman's successor, James Webb, pointed out that the Midway will be 50 years old by the time it can be replaced. But the highest Navy officer, Admiral William Crowe, who heads the Joint Chiefs of Staff, fired a shot across the fleet's bow by arguing that "painful choices have to be made." The admiral said he would give higher priority to such matters as "modern munitions, antisubmarine warfare and the SSN ((attack submarine)) program." That may have sounded like mutiny to the Navy, but some budgeteers on Capitol Hill were applauding...
...running to millions of dollars, guaranteed in a hostile takeover. Now, more and more firms are offering similar, if more modest, payoffs to their rank and file who might lose their jobs in a takeover. Dubbed "tin parachutes," the payments sometimes reach 250% of an employee's annual salary. Webb Bassick, a partner at Hewitt Associates, a consulting firm, estimates that as many as 15% of all large public companies have such packages. Among them are Mobil, America West Airlines and Diamond Shamrock, an oil conglomerate. Says Bassick: "It's refreshing to see companies looking at their moral obligation...