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Ginny and Rose, in their 30s, make a wonderful double portrait of sisters who love and understand each other. A reader could sit around their kitchen table for hours. They are not plotters but increasingly angry victims, and their rage makes them blind. Ginny has had five miscarriages, with no surviving children. Rose has had a mastectomy. Both fall in love with Jess Clark, a local boy who arrives back in town after 13 years well informed about environmental woes. Not only the sisters but also the father and his friend Harold fall victim to the poisoned land. Blinded...
Since Mather workers allowed Cobb only one entree on his first turn through the line, he employed the tried-and-true Harvard trick of dumping his left-over shrimp into an empty salad bowl before returning to the kitchen for seconds...
...serious charges were ever filed against him. Lansky put together casino deals and handled blood money without getting his hands too dirty. He was even a management consultant who could shape up an operation from the craps in the casino to the crepes that came out of the hotel kitchen. But estimates that he was worth $300 million are dismissed as "sheer fantasy...
Teachers have to be more than supermen (and women), and if they can't take the heat, Weld has got an early retirement program to help them get out of the kitchen. No extra incentives for people to take on this crazy job of supereducator were mentioned...
...control the damage, Robinson put bearlike Amex president Harvey Golub in direct charge of the Travel Related Services division, which includes card operations. Golub, known for his expertise on the ski slopes and in the kitchen, had been boss of one of Amex's few star performers, IDS Financial Services. To cut losses in the credit-card business, Golub plans a top-to- bottom overhaul at a cost of $110 million, which will include laying off 1,700 workers. Among other goals, Golub plans to boost the growth of Amex cards in force. Among the possible incentives: waiving...