Word: handing
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...late--stayed with him for more than an hour. In Kosovo he sat with a 100-year-old woman who could only say over and over again, "How could this happen to me at my age?" Annan is not a physically expansive man, but he held the woman's hand and listened without moving...
...Wall Street institution proclaimed that Amazon would eventually run out of cash "unless it manages to pull another financing rabbit out of its rather magical hat." The day of reckoning will come in the first quarter of next year, when sales are slower and Amazon goes cap in hand for more cash, as it has in the past. In this more frugal climate, Suria suggests, big Amazon backers like Kleiner Perkins may decline. (The venture-capital firm did not return calls for comment...
...Volusia County, where Danielle, a 19-year-old college student, survived last month's attack with 12 stitches in her thigh, sharks have attacked eight swimmers and surfers. A Kentucky teenager was bitten on the leg and hand on the same day Danielle was. The two met in the emergency room. "I was thinking, Man, this is normal?" says Danielle...
...must meet a genuine need. It must have specific, agreed-upon goals as well as benchmarks to determine whether it's on course to meet them. It should have top-level support from the business and the school, an orientation to acquaint teachers and volunteers with the undertaking at hand and someone to co-ordinate their efforts. A signed agreement is useful not only to clarify the intent and terms of the partnership but also, and perhaps more important, to celebrate its initiation...
...fought hard to keep its consumer-complaints data and lawsuits private, saying it knew of only one accident very similar to Taylor's. But Roberts wasn't buying that. On Nov. 22, 1999, he secured a crucial victory. In a dramatic ruling, state judge Sam Bournias ordered Firestone to hand over any complaints and other lawsuits, as well as employee depositions from those lawsuits, concerning its ATX and Wilderness tires nationwide. In addition, he permitted Roberts to share the information with lawyers involved in similar legal battles. Though other attorneys, notably Bruce Kaster of Ocala, Fla., and Tab Turner...