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...hiring Lutz, Wagoner is making a bold bet: that GM solves its problems not just by exhorting the bean counters to keep cutting costs and endlessly haggling with the unions but also by taking big risks to create exciting, popular products that bring in new revenues. Wagoner and chairman John F. Smith Jr. have carefully laid the groundwork for the kind of product-driven revolution Lutz has in mind. But he has to move fast, for the clock is ticking on his three-year contract...
...among the last of a certain breed of resident deans who worked here for a lifetime,” said Assistant Dean of Freshmen Philip A. Bean. “For the most part, he is representative of a different Harvard...
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...budget needs more revenue, you could always add 50 cents to the subway/bus fare, or hike the tax on parking garages - some New Yorkers will pay anything for a luxury. And something might be done with the tolls. But that's for the bean counters. Banning parking would rev all the economic engines that the city runs on, and eliminate the real source of economic dead weight, namely private-vehicle owners who are just waiting for an excuse to get out of town for the weekend anyway...
...lead the Senior Gift Committee. “I began to get worried after she told me she was ‘trizzashed,’ whatever that means. I also wondered why she left five messages on my emergency cell phone announcing that Jose Cuervo, Jack Daniels, Jim Bean and Tanqueray No. 10 would be our biggest donors. I haven’t met those particular seniors, but she seemed to know them pretty darn well.” Filney was later spotted cashing checks made out to the College Fund at Central Square’s Supreme Liquors...