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...performers. The album's buzzing, beeping, video-game-like sound is an exhausted ripoff of hip-hop folk star Beck. A few songs work, like the sci-fi rap number Intergalactic. But for the most part, listening to this album is a tedious, dispiriting task not unlike sorting a backlog of junk e-mail...
...complete 13 behind-schedule NG 737s parked outside the company's overstrained plant in Renton, Wash. Inside the cavernous building, workers struggled to avoid further delays even as Boeing was planning to speed up the NG 737 line from 14 planes a month to 21 to further clear the backlog. Says Boeing chairman Phil Condit: "We've still got some things to do." Like making money on the hot-selling 737s. Boeing has already written off $437 million after taxes against the first 400 737s in order to cover such costs as overtime charges and late-delivery fees. (Last week...
...burned when they rush into a stock on a hunch, rumor, hope or partial information. With EntreMed, many placed buy orders for last Monday morning "at the market," with no inkling that the market price had swelled sevenfold without a posted trade. The pros knew. They saw the backlog of buy orders that had built up over the weekend...
MONDAY Yesterday morning I left for Washington and spent most of the five-hour United flight to Dulles catching up on my E-mail backlog and reviewing my opening statement for the hearing. Watched a little of the latest James Bond movie on the flight. Somehow the new Bond movies are not as good as the ones I saw when I was young, or maybe it's me that is different...
Wisely, Mason and Tulane first tackled nuts and bolts. They evicted criminals and drug users, reduced the backlog of work orders by 9,000 and improved response times for such things as plumbing repairs from months to days or hours. Just as important, they enlisted the support of citywide tenant groups who had once fought HANO bitterly...