Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only tiny chest scars remain from his gunshot wound. The 11 Ibs. he lost while recuperating from the assassination attempt have been regained, and then some. "No Mexican lunch today," he declared with resignation recently, surveying the White House menu. "I gained five pounds over Christmas...
...entered the Yard during the twentieth century's first decade. After all, only the most ardent iconoclasts could pass through the Yard on a tranquil, sunlit afternoon and fail to delight in the splendor of its history. Legendary figures, we all know, have passed through, following a path that wound its way through the traditional brick buildings and on to the heights of glory. It's easy to wander through the old American architecture and conjure up impressions of the depths of knowledge thousands of Yard residents might have achieved, the countless hours spent at coursework, the imagination and creativity...
...with A T & T, the Justice Department's suit against IBM became a black hole that swallowed up corporate resources. By the time the actual trial began in 1975, some 5,500 pages of testimony had been gathered, and more than a dozen other companies wound up filing spin-off antitrust actions of their own against IBM, producing 66 million more pages of documents. Concedes Thomas Barr, a senior partner in the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, which managed IBM's defense and trained a whole generation of young antitrust lawyers in the process...
...belongs to Remington Rand, which unveiled UNIVAC in 1951. But IBM quickly produced its own machine and marketed it with a huge, tireless sales and service force. This was the personal army of Thomas Watson Sr., a sales genius who started his career peddling organs and sewing machines and wound up heading IBM from 1914 until his death in 1956. Watson ordered his troops to wear white shirts and post the famous THINK signs in their offices. They worked hard to discover what products businesses wanted, and were tough to beat on fast service for a blown computer circuit...
...most persuasive piece of evidence, however, is Pham himself. Unlike Be or Thanh, Pham is neither wild nor demonstrative. His hair, cut short and jagged around the wound, looks like a washed kitten's. His height is average for a Vietnamese 15-year-old?about 5 ft. 2 in. His build is average. His face is mouth-open flat, without expression, except for the eyes, so brown as to seem black, which cannot exactly be said to have expression either. They are their own depth, the vessels of what they have seen. It is what they have seen that makes...