Word: wiring
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...clear thinking was replacing some of our fear, and many of us accepted the fact that we had to get off the beach. Word was passed that a small draw providing access up the bluff had been found and that attempts were being made to blow up the barbed wire with bangalore torpedoes and find a way up through the mines. As I started up, I saw the white tape marking a safe path through the mines, and I also saw the price paid to mark that path for us. Several G.I.s had been blown to death, and another, still...
...motorbike in 1952. The film was meant to show the burgeoning social awareness of the two men, one of whom became Che the guerrilla, the other a doctor in Havana. But all it proved was that a couple of upper-middle-class boys, who were too stubborn to wire their parents for money, met a lot of downtrodden but good-looking women...
...weekend left a bitter taste for players and coaches, who had similarly come down to the wire and won against Dartmouth in the season’s final series in 2002 and 2003. But with a host of positives—including sophomore Zak Farkes’ assault on the Harvard record books—to be found in an otherwise painful weekend, it was not the way Harvard played that ultimately shattered the Crimson’s title dreams...
Heading a multinational drug firm is a high-wire act. When you aren't struggling to satisfy investors, you're justifying the high cost of your products to consumers. Daniel Vasella, CEO of the Swiss company Novartis, seems to pull off the act effortlessly. Urbane, understated and uncommonly charming, Vasella--a physician by training--speaks three languages fluently and flits easily among the varied social and commercial cultures in which his company operates. He's Swiss and proud of it, but his business sense is quintessentially American...
...Soleil," says Ernest Albrecht, author of The New American Circus. Cirque has also sparked interest in vaudeville, acrobatics and street performance. Up next: another Vegas show, premiering in September, a new touring show for 2005 and possibly, down the road, even Cirque-themed restaurants, spas and casinos. The high-wire act continues. --By Steven Frank