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...turnaround job can't be done simply by cutting costs. "George Fisher is not just coming in to chop heads," says Michael Geran, an analyst at Pershing & Co. "He's a builder, not a destroyer. He's coming in to reinvent and re-energize the company." That's a challenge his successor at Motorola can gratefully skip...
...weirdest thing he ever ate: I had curdled blood in Chinatown. It was really good. It tasted like crimson tofu. It curdles in clumps and they chop it into cubes and then pour scallions and oyster sauce over...
...obvious cases where good teachers are letgo early are more than compensated for [by thefact that] so-so teaching was allowed tocontinue," Buell said. "[In a more lenientsystem,] are you going to chop the head off ofrespectable mediocrity? The odds are that you'regoing to reserve the axe for blatant cases...
...second category consists of either Bruce Lee-types who only know how to karate-chop their way through life, or Chinatown gangsters like those in the film, "Year of the Dragon." It seems that without kung-fu or a gun, we are a race of half-men who are an affront to masculinity...
Miller's solution to the musical obstruction inher room is much simpler. "If [the harp] evercrowds me, I'll chop it into pieces and throw itinto the fire," she said