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...humbling lesson. Earlier this year the company's weakened financial condition forced it to search for outside capital. Warren Buffett, the Omaha-based billionaire who serves as interim caretaker at Salomon Brothers, stepped in with a $300 million investment. The company has also recognized that its managers have to adjust to an economic slowdown that may last for the better part of the 1990s. Says Robinson: "Management has to be able to deal with good times and bad. It's easier in good times, but we can't always operate in an environment that's friendly...
...quest at times seems impossibly romantic, restorationists display a refreshing pragmatism. Rather than demanding that all hydroelectric dams be dynamited, river restorationists insist that power generators install fish ladders and adjust water flows to help salmon and trout reach upstream spawning grounds. Al Steuter, manager of the Nature Conservancy's 20,800- hectare (51,400-acre) Niobrara Valley Preserve in Nebraska, hopes to demonstrate how ranchers can run cattle on restored prairies without destroying them. After all, he asks, "what's the point of restoration if we have to station guards to protect the landscape...
...Then, you have to adjust and do what you can," Restic continued. "But in all fairness to the people who came in there and worked the game, I thought they did as well as they could possibly do based on the work they...
While Harvard's defense held strong against Army's all-wishbone option for most of the game, the Crimson will have to adjust to the Crusaders' more balanced attack...
...shyness with her mother's overbearing small talk. While Laura becomes ill at the thought of social interaction, Ma Wingfield rambles, "Light clothes an' light food are what warm weather calls fo'. You know our blood gets so thick during th' winter, it takes a while fo' us to adjust ou'selves...