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...President Jack Meyer declined comment, referring questions to Elizabeth A. Gray, secretary to the Corporation's Committee on Shareholder Responsibility. Gray was unavailable for comment...
Looking like he has just walked off the set of Brother, Beat, medium height, rolling shouldered, a little paunchy in the middle, strolls into a hotel suite dressed in yet another gray Yamamoto suit. He chain smokes while he talks, and interrupts the conversation frequently to apply drops to moisturize his right eye. (The tear ducts were injured in a 1994 motorcycle accident.) Beat comes across as rough, and radiates a warning not to mess with him. The guy is calm, but it's the calm of a coiled spring. For him, violence and comedy both hinge on unpredictability. That...
...relatives for a trial, but they have always quietly been there for the bereaved, whether they be visitors or Molly Oliver, the only close relative of a local victim now left in Lockerbie. For the dead, there are discreet memorials all around. In the cemetery, a plain slab of gray Aberdeen granite bears all the victims' names. In Tundergarth churchyard, 5 km away and opposite the field where the plane's blue-and-white nose fell, a tiny stone building houses two memorial books. One lists the dead in flowing script, another records their personal histories. Pilgrims who come...
Chikoka nods his head toward another woman sitting beside a stack of cardboard cartons. "We like better to go to them," he says. They are the "businesswomen," smugglers with gray-market cases of fruit and toilet paper and toys that they need to transport somewhere up the road. "They come to us, and we negotiate privately about carrying their goods." It's a no-cash deal, he says. "They pay their bodies to us." Chikoka shrugs at a suggestion that the practice may be unhealthy. "I been away two weeks, madam. I'm human. I'm a man. I have...
Luring new hires with signing bonuses and in-house masseuses was the game less than a year ago. But today, as the economy staggers, it's slash-and-burn--perks, pay and personnel. The numbers are getting ugly. Outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas says announced job cuts for December were the highest since the firm began tracking them in 1993. And January's are bound to be even higher. General Electric is poised to idle 75,000, according to BusinessWeek Online, though GE disputes that figure...