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...comparable-store sales, the crucial measure of a retail chain's organic growth through existing stores, had been declining for eight quarters. Home Depot was expanding so quickly that many executives saw nothing wrong. "You had people who were enormously proud of what they had accomplished," says Frank Blake, who worked with Nardelli at GE and is operations chief at Home Depot. "It was a cock-of-the-walk sort of attitude...
...language that originated in the West. The authors point out that even as Western Europe and America began evolving into liberal democracies with capitalist economies, a countercurrent of opposition accused the newly emerging "modern" world of being devoid of spirituality. In the arts, Romantic poets like Wordsworth and Blake charged that industrialization was stripping people of their individuality and their connection to the past, while in politics, Karl Marx accused capitalism of ruthlessly exploiting workers. Buruma and Margalit spotlight the often striking overlap in language and ideas between Europe's intellectual rebels from the late 18th, 19th and early 20th...
...requirement, and turns to well-schooled Eddie for help. For movie dorks like myself, this is ironic because Stiles got her start acting in Shakespearean adaptations like 10 Things I Hate About You (aka The Taming of the Shrew), Michael Almereyda’s adaptation of Hamlet and Tim Blake Nelson’s O, a high school version of Othello. Such slight touches of wit made this fairy tale viable, but ultimately forgettable date material...
After the second inning, the Crusaders had cycled out starter Keith Simard in favor of a more off-speed pitcher, Matt Blake, who did exactly what Harvard couldn’t—shut the door. In seven innings of relief, Blake quietly surrendered just two runs, one earned, on six hits...
Both Hendricks and Hale finished the game 2-for-3, and Hale also scored a run. Salsgiver had the Crimson’s only other hit off of Cornell ace Dan Baysinger (0-2), who tossed eight innings of five-hit baseball before being relieved by Blake Hamilton, who threw a perfect ninth...