Word: wind
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Forget the throwdowns of yore, FM is tossing midgets to the wind and becoming one big happy family. Add in the groupies and hangers-on and make that one big extended clan. The love-in began over a breakfast of crispitos sometime one early morn. After much consideration, we decided to stop bitching about corruption and image and simply embrace the joys of cohesion. With gusto, FMers gave up all other plans (except maybe mullets) and began to create a life together...
...early 1980s Lloyd's had begun to fear not only the onset of asbestos losses but future litigation arising from the recruitment drive. Its answer was to persuade Parliament to grant the company immunity from lawsuits by the Names--something the lawmakers might not do were they to get wind of the insurer's financial problems. And so, according to the London suit, Lloyd's duly set out to cook the books. The complex scheme allegedly involved closing the books prematurely on growing losses to conceal them...
...American Civilization and three years as a teaching fellow for History and Literature, 41-year-old Pleun Bouricius is just now realizing that the intrigue of Harvard has all but disappeared. Her decision: next year she will gather her things from her Massachusetts nest and head where the wind takes heroover the open road and behind the wheel of a Mac truck...
...middle of the movie, Jimmy Stewart's snooping shifts from being the forgivable voyeurism of a bored man waist-deep in plaster to the important surveillance of a concerned citizen. As soon as he and Grace Kelly convince themselves they've seen a murder, scruples are thrown to the wind...
...national agreement about what form we want the country to take. After we've settled that, we should pick an elite that has the inclination and the ability to do what we want done. Generate an elite first--without a definite project for it to accomplish--and you will wind up with a class of leaders without followers...