Within a week, he grew hoarse, and from the next room it was as though another man were singing not Dad but a growly stranger.

NEWYORKER: Mr. Bones

The merger is the last hurrah for Larry Bossidy, the growly boss of AlliedSignal, who is arguably America's second-most-admired industrial manager after his old boss, Jack Welch of General Electric.

ECONOMIST: Honeywell and AlliedSignal

Now this was a foolish, comical gaffe, though perhaps not a global crisis Beckett's comments were absurd, but the condemnations also got a little heated and growly, and after a while, the whole thing started to sound like an argument about Joss Whedon's movies taking place on a bus to chess camp.

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