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SURROUNDED BY COPS ON A VIRGINIA HIGHWAY, ACCUSED DRUG dealer Alfred E. Acree Jr. did what any self-respecting suspect would do: he ran like hell. Diving into a dark wood at night, Acree was no doubt amazed by the swiftness of his apprehension by county sheriff's deputies -- not realizing that he had signaled his presence brilliantly with his brand-new L.A. Gear Light Gear athletic shoes, battery powered so as to illuminate the wearer's every move. Officers say $800 worth of cocaine was found in Acree's pockets. L.A. Gear, naturally, prefers the story of a seven...
...Magaziner. He hit the shop floor and began taking apart TV sets with his bare hands, assessing the cost of the components, piece by piece. His conclusion: GE's profit margins could be found not in producing the set's electronic components but in building its plastic-and-wood casing and picture tube, a process that could be done most cheaply in the U.S. GE quickly shifted its TV-assembly plant from Japan to Indiana, a move that put the division in the black within two years. "Ira's not some hyperintellectual consultant who throws an incomprehensible leather-bound report...
...speak Portuguese, you're not in their group," said John M. Wood...
Ireland spoke of the recent selection of a female attorney general as "instructive of many of the issues we face." She said that after Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood were denied the position, the running joke in Washington was that for President Bill Clinton to find a suitable female candidate he would have to locate "a childless woman with a dirty house. So along came Janet Reno...
...Tree, a Rock, a Piece of Wood: The Image of Al Gore in the Poems of Maya Angelou...