The pitch of the electric whine goes up, the suspension sinks down, but compared with an internal-combustion sports car quaint thing that it is now this car slips silently as a dagger into triple-digit speed.

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Then comes the high-pitched whine of tires against road as vehicles speed up in anticipation of hitting the Montana border.

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We spent an afternoon talking through the top-ten boss offenders the archetype bad bosses who drive employees around the world to whine and moan and, sometimes, pack up their desk plant and hit the road and turnaround tactics to help even these problem managers succeed.

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Goerman, who'd owned the Student Prince for fifty years, brought up platters of creamed whitefish and several bottles of Rhine whine and we toasted the birthday of the baby Jesus, and all in all, this might have been our happiest time.

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But I am tired of the way they whine about their interior decorators, their children's SAT scores, the two wrinkles that have shown up on their foreheads, and the new Saab, which has more problems than the old Jaguar.

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