Word: dwarf
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...winners than Immelt: Robert Nardelli and W. James McNerney, two Welch-trained knights-in-the-running who failed to win the crown. With Welch's shoes filled--if that's possible--these executives won't stay at GE much longer, and the pay packages that land them will probably dwarf what will initially be given to Immelt. A signing bonus in the tens of millions of dollars? Instant vesting in stock plans? Huge guaranteed annual bonuses? A big chunk of the company? Such goodies are widely available to top-flight managers in today's mobile CEO sweepstakes...
...type away at Lamont, defending the commodification of self in a paper on dwarf tossing for Justice, nature calls. What should I do? First, I could leave my laptop in mid-sentence and run to the bathroom. Second, I could close my laptop and attempt to cover it with loose papers and my jacket. Third, I could take my laptop into the bathroom and try not to drop it. Yet, should I not have a fourth option? Should I not be able to leave my laptop open, leisurely stroll to the bathroom, use the hand dryer twice, check e-mail...
...wrapped up rehearsals for her appearance on the program to promote Lovers Rock (Epic), her first CD of new music in eight years. That's a lifetime in pop: time enough for the Seattle rock scene to have exploded like a supernova and to have collapsed like a white dwarf, time enough for Britney Spears to have gone from an innocent grade schooler to a stripteasing teen queen, time enough for the rap-rock genre to have bulked up its market muscle like a steroid-popping Bulgarian weight lifter. Time has passed, but it hasn't passed Sade by. Even...
...wrapped up rehearsals for her appearance on the program to promote "Lovers Rock" (Epic), her first CD of new music in eight years. That's a lifetime in pop: time enough for the Seattle rock scene to have exploded like a supernova and to have collapsed like a white dwarf, time enough for Britney Spears to have gone from an innocent grade schooler to a stripteasing teen queen, time enough for the rap-rock genre to have bulked up its market muscle like a steroid-popping Bulgarian weight lifter. Time has passed, but it hasn't passed Sade by. Even...
...mouth of the Amazon. The 16th century philosopher Francis Bacon wrote that nature best reveals her secrets when tormented; Nepstad is doing just that to help save 150 million hectares?an area three times the size of France?that are in imminent danger of destruction by firestorms that would dwarf anything ever seen before. ?For the first time,? says Nepstad, ?we can see the ingredients for the beginning of the end of the Amazon...