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Race Against the Clock...
...clock nears 8 along the Eastern Seaboard on Tuesday night, a strange new phenomenon takes place in U.S. urban life. Business falls off in many a nightclub, theater-ticket sales are light, neighborhood movie audiences thin. Some late-hour shopkeepers close up for the night. In Manhattan, diners at Lindy's gulp their after-dinner coffee and call for their checks. On big-city bar rails, there is hardly room for another foot. For the next hour, wherever a signal from an NBC transmitter can be picked out of the air, a large part of the population has its eyes...
...theory behind employee-ownership programs is that they will transform workers from clock punchers to partners who will be motivated to better serve customers and make things run more efficiently. At the most successful worker-owned firms, the theory is pretty close to the reality. "Nobody's afraid to jump in," says Louise Brown, 46, a 25-year Gore veteran who handles customer complaints. "Whatever you need to get the job done, people are always ready...
Harvard’s sense of urgency grew with every tick of the clock, but consecutive goals by co-captain defender Hilary Walton, off of passes from Belitsos and Christino, respectively, knotted the contest...
...were happening we would know," says Uthaiwan Sawanarun, owner of J.J. Taxi Group, who staunchly adds that she would drive anyone who bad-mouthed Thaksin straight to the police. Newspapers and opposition politicians branded Thaksin as paranoid. "If Thaksin seriously believes that groups of people are planning around- the-clock to destroy him, then maybe he should see a doctor,'' says Jurin Laksanavisit, a senior member of the opposition Democrat Party. Thaksin is perfectly fine, according to his deputy health minister, who assured the Bangkok Post that the Prime Minister "falls asleep easily...