Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...irreverent at heart. He's eager to put you at ease, but he gets miffed if you pry too closely. Just a few friends ever see the McCartney house, set in the forest in Sussex. His & Scottish estate is reachable only by foot across a bog or by four-wheel drive. Decades of Beatlemania haven't dehumanized him, but he has learned to be wary...
...large mall featuring a food outlet, a pharmacy and a liquor store with Korean- language signs, men with pump shotguns and high-powered pistols defended their businesses. A barricade of shopping carts was arranged in the parking lot, which was patrolled by armed Koreans in a four-wheel vehicle. As a pair of looters approached the mall, the guards fired 12-gauge rounds into the air to chase them away. Elsewhere a security guard was killed defending a Korean- owned store from attack...
First, we worked with a mock-up of a plane and wing, learning the sequence of commands that would get us from inside the plane to the final jump position, holding the wing strut, left foot on the wheel, right foot dangling in the 75 mph wind...
Then we stepped off the wheel onto the ground, threw ourselves into an arch and counted to four, while Kevin held flashcard pictures of parachutes in various states of malfunction over our heads...
...management shake-up was orchestrated by retired Procter & Gamble chairman John Smale. In a break with company tradition, Smale became chairman of the important executive committee, a job previously reserved for inside directors. His elevation left many around Detroit wondering how long Stempel, 58, would be at the wheel. Last Thursday Smale attempted to ease Stempel's humiliation by vowing that the chairman retained the "full support and confidence" of the board in his efforts to improve GM's North American operations. That will be no small trick: analysts estimate that GM lost up to $400 million in the first...