Word: castoffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...oceanside town of Margate, N.J., children recycled Christmas trees as a means to stave off beach erosion. They planted castoff trees in a trench along the beach, which trapped wind-blown sand and anchored a new sand dune. "The trees were heavy, and some were bigger than me!" recalls fourth-grader Jim Abbott. When fierce nor'easters rushed across the beach, the dune built by kids and bolstered by balsam firs held up, while nearby dunes washed away...
...this 1998 October Classic into something competitive. First up as savior: pitcher Sterling Hitchcock, who will get the ball Tuesday night against the Yankees' David Cone. Hitchcock has been brilliant in the postseason, but then again, so had the rest of his teammates -- until now. And as a Yankee castoff, Hitchcock doesn't exactly inspire fear...
Weill stands apart from an industry where oversize egos often overwhelm logic. His latest deal caps years of collecting castoff companies at fire-sale prices and then trimming costs by paying close attention to detail. He started in 1986 by taking over Commercial Credit, a reject of computer-maker Control Data. It was not the job he wanted--Weill had been given the bum's rush when he offered himself as CEO of BankAmerica--but a spruced-up Commercial Credit gave Weill a springboard. And he sprang: he merged Commercial Credit with struggling Primerica in 1988, getting the Smith Barney...
...center-left Democratic Revolution Party (P.R.D.), people should look at his record while he was governor of the state of Michoacan and belonged to the long-ruling authoritarian Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.). The younger generation in Mexico had better examine this old "dinosaur" carefully. He is a castoff, passed over and recycled. JAY COBB Eaton, Ohio...