At Morgan Stanley, an investment bank, an unusually public knuckle-dusting pits the chief executive, Philip Purcell, against a group of former executives, now shareholders, who blame him for the hybrid firm's lacklustre showing over the past five years.
The bones' discovery, while exciting to archaeologists, has stirred a cultural dust storm, pitting state officials against local Irish-American and church leaders in a protracted skirmish over burial rites that revives memories of a dark moment in Ireland's history.
Whatever the case, the dust-up pits Mr. Falcone, a relative unknown outside the moneyed club of hedge funds, against some of the biggest forces in the country, like the Department of Defense (which also uses GPS systems).
We want to stop hurting," Mr Layne pleaded, in a voice that was roughened to near-inaudibility with pain and 30 years breathing coal dust down a pit.
The boom kicked dust around the pit as they ran through the drill again and again, sending a mixture of burning white phosphorus and high explosives they call 'shake'n'bake' into... buildings where insurgents have been spotted all week". White phosphorus is not listed in the schedules of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
"There is concern that there could be long-term effects" of dust and burn pit exposures, said Dr. Paul Ciminera, director of the Post-9/11 Era Environmenthe Health Program at the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs.
Environmental exposures, from Agent Orange to dust and burn pits, have affected troops through different wars over many decades.
At noon (about 7 meters down) the debris changed to the usual dirty sand and dust of the pits reused in Saite times and replundered.
Since there are no moving parts, it doesn't get clogged with dust or get pitted like the roller ball mice.
(In pits, dust can fall back and stanch jetting activity by blocking the sun).
