Word: things
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...flat-belly, perfect-teeth kind of guy; but, at 38, J. Fred Muggs, the world's most famous chimpanzee, remains a crowd pleaser. "People like him because he's unpredictable and natural," says his trainer, Bud Mennella. "That show needs a spark, and Muggs has it." One thing is for certain: he couldn't hurt...
...business to auctions in recent years, are not immune to schadenfreude. Lawrence Rubin, for instance, head of New York's M. Knoedler & Co. gallery, sees "a slump self- induced by the auction houses. Over the past three years, they have simply doubled their price estimates regardless of what the thing might really be worth. You can't go on jerking up prices relentlessly like that without real clients ready to pay them, and clearly they're not. You run out of rope...
...Drugs will continue to kill, as will people who use them. When the doctors and nurses who devote themselves to saving lives on the edge are also asked to be baby-sitters, bodyguards, street fighters and traffic cops, the burnout rate will only increase. And the last thing that a grievously wounded or ailing person needs to think about in a speeding ambulance is whether the hospital doors will be open when it arrives. Until the emergency room is made safe for emergencies, no one will be safe...
Something had to go, and last week the Philips board, led by Chairman Wisse Dekker, decided that it was Van der Klugt. The 40-year veteran was forced out. Philips, Dekker admitted at a hastily called news conference, was suffering a "crisis of confidence, the worst thing that can happen to a corporation." He then named as Van der Klugt's successor Jan Timmer, 57, chief of the firm's consumer-electronics division...
...gain such mobility, they must travel with less artillery and heavy armor. The lightly armed Special Operations Forces are equipped to make lightning raids behind enemy front lines. Still, there is enormous overlap between the three separate forces. Taken together, they are simply too much of a good thing...