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...CNOOC's run at Unocal, no one had exactly covered themselves in glory. Fu, the personable CEO who had gone to graduate school in Los Angeles near Unocal's headquarters, had taken a pratfall right out of the gate back in late March, failing to inform his board members about the bid until just two days before he was going to launch it. When virtually the entire eight-member board?and not, as earlier reports had it, just the outside directors?balked, Fu had to back off. That allowed Chevron to make the first bid, and forced CNOOC to play...
...haven't kept up with the best band of the past decade, Jumpers is a 4 1/2-min. refresher course. The lyrics--about considering a leap from the Golden Gate Bridge--read smart on the page, but they take on a tragic intensity in Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker's interwoven vocals...
After a struggle, Rosa escaped and continued his flight down Plympton Street and into the Quincy House courtyard. He attempted to find an exit across the courtyard, but was stymied by the locked gate...
...Officers were dispatched to investigate after a motor vehicle drove into a parking gate arm at the Oxford St. Garage. The broken arm was reattached and a report was filed...
...park's designers brought in a feng shui master, who rotated the front gate, repositioned cash registers and ordered boulders set in key locations to ensure the park's prosperity. He even chose the park's "auspicious" opening date. New construction was often begun with a traditional good-luck ceremony featuring a carved suckling pig. (Ironically, Disney kicked up trouble not by being too American but by being too Chinese. Disney offered to serve shark-fin soup at banquets, but the local favorite got yanked from the menu in June after environmentalists, who blame consumption of the delicacy for endangering...