Word: quartered
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Kerkorian, 73, collected $1.3 billion from the sale last month of his majority stake in MGM/UA Communications. Chrysler, which suffered a $214 million loss in the third quarter, must have looked like a bargain. Its stock price has fallen 40% in the past year, to 12 1/4. Even so, Kerkorian's strategy remains a mystery, since Chrysler's share of the auto market is weakening and the automaker's assets might be difficult to sell piecemeal...
Some of those foreigners actively helped the resistance. "We taught them how to make homemade Claymore mines and various antipersonnel devices," says Joseph Lammerding, an American engineer who worked for the Kuwaiti military. "You would take quarter sticks of TNT, which are commonly used in oil drilling, dip them in glue and roll them in buckshot," he explains. "Then you would set them off in the middle of a group of Iraqis. To make homemade plastic explosives, you would cook a mixture of diesel oil and powdered soap...
Tuesday Morning anticipates strong holiday sales, despite a sluggish start. "We expect to end the year 12% up," says Ross. The company typically rakes in 45% of its revenues and all its profits in the fourth quarter. But Ross is looking far beyond the current season. He aims to nearly double the number of Tuesday Morning stores to 250 by 1995 and to be open -- and closed -- for business in every state...
Landings had been banned at Metro because of the fog, but takeoffs were allowed to continue because visibility on the runways was declared to be above the required quarter-mile minimum. Captain William Lovelace, making only his 13th flight after a five-year absence (he had left to get treatment for a kidney-stone ailment and later opened a gift shop), apparently became disoriented in the murk shortly after pulling his DC-9 away from the gate. According to investigators, he made a left turn onto a wrong taxiway, then failed to turn right onto a second taxiway that would...
...takeoffs been permitted? One pilot traveling as a passenger on the 727 insisted that visibility had been less than a quarter-mile. Francis McKelvey, an airport designer and engineering professor at Michigan State, said it is time for aviation officials to ask "whether you should be operating an airport if you can't see all the surfaces on which aircraft are moving...