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...kingpins, and thugs fight daily with Kalashnikovs, rocket-propelled grenades and homemade bombs. About 3,000 soldiers and federal agents patrol the city in Hummers and helicopters, but the job of picking up the maimed is left entirely to the Red Cross--mostly medical students in their teens and 20s. The local government donates to the group but provides no emergency service of its own. "It is very difficult when we know that someone is waiting and dying, but the security of our people is important to us," says José Vidal González, head of the ambulance unit. "Our volunteers...
...worries and grumbling mothers with places like Rusfinance, a Moscow call center that transports you from the gritty streets and auto-parts stores outside into a world of cheery beige furnishings, swirling red-and-gold patterns on the walls and easy credit. Here, 450 people - mainly women in their 20s - sit side by side in booths and field calls from Russians wanting to borrow money. Most of the time the answer they give is a resounding yes. Owned by the French bank Société Générale, Rusfinance is aiming to build a massive presence...
...course, it's Muji,' when they experience a product." Yasui says the task is to remind consumers of Muji and its quality, and the struggle is to find a balance between something of slightly better quality that appeals to people in their 50s at a price those in their 20s can afford...
...deterioration, just as it was guilty of creating an unparalleled manufacturing system decades earlier. The Detroit approach has been plan-command-control, stemming from that original control freak, Henry Ford. At GM, a management hierarchy that had been created by GM's master planner, Alfred P. Sloan, in the '20s - GM's first and most successful restructuring - was still functioning in the '80s. Management's job was to create the products, design the production system and provide solutions if there were problems. Everyone else followed orders...
...20s, she worked as a foreign policy aide to Michael Dukakis during his 1988 presidential run. She later worked for John Kerry's 2004 campaign and was a senior foreign policy advisor to the Obama campaign...