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...reman's practitioners also relish the challenge of giving clapped-out parts new leases on life. "It's all about taking back old stuff in mass quantities and doing something with it," Fisher says. That waste-not ethic is evident on the shop floor of the Shrewsbury complex. Tim Baker, the plant's operations manager, says employees get excited about coming up with new ways to salvage. "Our people are very passionate about not throwing things away," says Baker. "It's like tossing away money." And you don't become the industry's fat Cat doing foolish things like that...
...into a bloody clash between security forces and students when the authorities tried to cordon off the madrasah complex as part of a plan to shut it down. The next day, a shoot-on-sight curfew was in force around the area, and tensions remained high. TIME's Aryn Baker was caught in the July 3 cross-fire. Here's her account of what happened...
Frank, obviously, has a drinking problem. And it is interfering with his job performance. Indeed, he sleeps straight through his next assignment. Since he's a hit man for a fading mob, that is not exactly a good career move. His boss (Philip Baker Hall) orders him to San Francisco to dry out. On the face of it, this is not a good idea; Frank is not what you'd call a logical candidate for AA pieties. He's perhaps a better fit for the job that's found for him in a funeral parlor; dead bodies...
...economics, the ostensible subject of the summit, Treasury Secretary James Baker remarked, "I can't think of any major item . . . that we came here wanting that we did not get." True, but only because the U.S. knew better than to press the other six for any strong action. Washington had hoped that Japan and West Germany would move to stimulate their domestic economies to ward off a growing threat of world recession and, not incidentally, reduce their towering trade surpluses, which are the counterpart of the U.S. deficit. Japan did announce a stimulative package before the summit, but Britain...
...Open Collection Program and the Harvard-Google Project, which aim to provide digital access to anyone with an Internet connection, the libraries have also focused on providing virtual resources, such as databases like LexisNexis or JSTOR, that are only accessible to Harvard affiliates. The Business School’s Baker Library, in fact, spends more on subscription electronic content than printed materials, according to the library’s executive director, Mary Lee Kennedy...