Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some early interviews, she mentioned that her beginning work on the Harry Potter books corresponded briefly with a bad patch in her personal life. She was newly divorced, temporarily out of work, on the dole and living in an unheated Edinburgh flat. To keep them both warm, she would wheel her young daughter into a cafe and sometimes jot down Harry Potter ideas on napkins...
Three months after admitting they have a serious customer-satisfaction problem ? and assuring Congress they could solve it on their own ?- the nation?s major airlines finally unveiled their self-imposed makeover on Wednesday. United Airlines will wheel out "Mobile Chariot" workstations during flight delays to help stranded passengers with rebooking, and will deploy 600 hand-held baggage scanners at its busiest airports to help find rerouted luggage. Continental promises a top-to-bottom "Customer First" program aimed at improving its communication with passengers. And that?s just to name a couple ?- the Air Transport Association, the airlines' umbrella group...
...before a jury. The two coroners in the case have turned him down on both counts, but al Fayed is appealing. Meanwhile, bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, among others, could sue al Fayed's Ritz for civil damages for allowing its improperly licensed and drunken security chief to take the wheel of the Mercedes...
HIGHWAY PATROL A word of warning to people with diabetes. Nearly 50% of the time, diabetics say they would get behind the wheel of a vehicle even when their blood-sugar levels were low enough to cause loss of coordination or blacking out. If your blood glucose drops below 65 mg/dL, don't drive. AIDS ALERT There's no longer room for debate about whether an HIV-positive mom should breast-feed or bottle-feed an infant. New research shows that infected breast-feeding moms run at least a 10% risk of transmitting the virus to their babies over...
...designers at Denmark's Bang & Olufsen set new standards of cool for home electronics. This fall they hope to lure buyers with their new BeoCom 6000 cordless phone. The wedge-shaped handset (in blue, red, green or black) sits on a pyramid-shaped base and has a dialing wheel that makes it easy to scan and store numbers. Is it worth the $475 price? Good question...