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...girl approach the Ec table and introduce herself. When the group asked her what she would concentrate in, she said she had no idea. She then sat down and talked for a half hour or so,” Gottesman said. “I think in general this was a success...
Trager, sensing the steady approach of his personal Waterloo, lambasted his team and its lack of mental focus, tongue-lashing his infielders as the game slipped away, but to no avail...
That line gives a clue to the approach of director John Lee Hancock (The Rookie) and the platoon of writers: they want simultaneously to criticize and celebrate U.S. imperialism. The good intentions and lousy planning of the Alamo's defense make it seem like a 19th century dress rehearsal for Vietnam. A shot of American corpses dangling from a tree has an eerie resemblance to images this month of a bridge in Fallujah, Iraq. But the Alamo massacre is only Act II. Houston's quick victory at the subsequent Battle of San Jacinto seized Texas from Mexican control and allows...
Although both companies have weathered Japan's decade-long economic stagnation, many analysts say that Akira's workmanlike approach has created the more profitable, financially stronger company. "We do not predict the future," Akira says. "We do short-term projects." Inevitably, some sibling rivalry remains. "My brother is more interested in creating a good company with a high valuation than in creating cities," Minoru sniffs...
...communal approach has helped him build the Philippines' equivalent of Wal-Mart Stores. SM Group is a retail giant, with 38,600 employees and annual revenues of $1.7 billion. Despite that success, Sy's children realize that the all-in-the-family management style is becoming outdated. Like so many of Asia's big business clans, a generational shift and the stresses of running an increasingly complex company are forcing the insular Sys to open up more to outsiders. "For my father, the organization is the family," says Sy's eldest daughter Teresita Sy-Coson, known as Tessie...