Mr. Henry shifted the car into gear and pulled out of the fire lane, moving at "regular parking lot speed," Mr. Cox said.
Would it be too much to expect G.M.'s management to express appreciation for having had their chestnuts pulled out of the fire?
But stay away from the lamb osso buco, which tends to be dried out and scary -- like something pulled out of a caveman's fire.
One tragedy in Saigon today is that both the govt. & many Vietnamese generally expect their chestnuts to be pulled out of the fire by the Americans.
"Abdul Haq came to me a year ago and said, 'I think this thing can be pulled out of the fire,' and I joined up," Joseph Ritchie said this week.
All managers keep a "burning building" list of the people whom they would pull out of a metaphorical fire to keep the business alive.
The government officially pulled out of the cease-fire last month and forced independent Nordic truce monitors to leave the country.
Mr. Johnson, an office rival of Mr. Ercolino's who the police said held Mr. Ercolino responsible for the loss of his job, pulled out the gun, fired at Mr. Ercolino five times, put the gun away and calmly walked off, trying to blend into the crowd as Mr. Ercolino lay bleeding on the sidewalk.
