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...textile manufacturing is seen primarily as its ability to produce clothes cheaply. But leading manufacturers like Luen Thai are also trying to add value in other areas, for example, by streamlining the supply chain and making their customers' jobs easier. At the Dongguan compound, Luen Thai provides major clients such as Polo Ralph Lauren and U.S. department-store chain Dillard's with dedicated teams of designers, merchandisers and sales staff?all housed in plush offices located on the factory site. Keeping designers close to production cuts development time and improves communication. Luen Thai teams are also able to learn about...
Mahoney said the Pring-Wilson lawyers’ gambit to put their client on the witness stand backfired by allowing the prosecution to undermine his credibility...
...testified this morning before a federal grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA operative's name by administration sources. Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald questioned Rove about his contacts with journalists in what a source familiar with Rove's situation said was his third appearance before the grand jury. "My client appeared voluntarily before the grand jury and has cooperated with the investigation since it began," said Rove's attorney Robert Luskin. "He has been assured in writing as recently as this week that he is not a target of the investigation...
...through a representative story, or analogy. Simply put, the financial world is a sweet-johnson dance party. As your colleague, I will roll-up on other analysts in that piece (conference room) and start flashing my ice (i.e. a bangin’ portfolio) until they step off my shorty (client). I’ll spot the bond market in the corner, advance, and subsequently badunka-dunk-dunk it without mercy until it ejects money like a cash-hydrant...
Schwartz, of course, has been wrong--spectacularly, embarrassingly so. On Aug. 1, 1990, he had dinner with a Chicago CEO and client who asked whether reports of the Iraqi army massing on the border with Kuwait were anything to worry about. "Don't think twice about it," replied Schwartz, who had worked long enough in the oil industry for Shell to be familiar with Iraqi saber rattling. The next day Kuwait was invaded, and Schwartz "looked like an idiot," he concedes. "I applied an old mental map to a new situation and failed to force myself to be imaginative...