Word: cleaning
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Hammer's philosophy does not refer to adjusting the knobs on the machinery. Reengineering is radical. It means starting with a clean sheet--if you were going to begin making and selling cars or magazines today, how would you go about it as opposed to how you are doing it now? The answers set in motion a revolution the likes of which hadn't been seen since Henry Ford introduced the assembly line. Like most revolutions, this one has been extremely messy. Such huge firms as Procter & Gamble, Xerox and American Standard have successfully taken a Hammer to their structures...
...always believed in simplicity," Klein reflects. "I've never been one to see women in ruffles and all kinds of fanciful apparel. To me it's just silly." No matter what the Gaultiers and Gallianos are doing, Klein, 53, keeps his palette defiantly muted, his lines aggressively clean, his style obsessively grounded in reality...
...This is not about me," Ross Perot likes to say when asked if he will run for President again. As he tells it, his effort to establish a national Reform Party is about creating a vehicle to take the country to the promised land of balanced budgets, clean politics and democracy so pure that voters could veto tax hikes by referendum. Who would drive this bus to Utopia? Well, Perot has been scouting for someone he describes as "George Washington II." For months no one volunteered for that role. But now Richard Lamm, former Democratic Governor of Colorado, is auditioning...
...world's most proficient drug smugglers. Savvy too: they realized their own comings and goings were being closely watched by antinarcotics agents in airports throughout Europe and the U.S. So they scoured after-hours joints in Navy ports of call, looking for dupes. "The key was a clean-cut appearance, a U.S. passport and the ability to be tempted by $25,000 to $30,000 for a weekend's work," says Lieut. Commander Bill Spann, the Navy spokesman in Naples...
Princeton made it a clean sweep at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships on June 1, defeating Harvard in the finals by a mere .02 seconds for the national championship...