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...most important test of his life, sheer doggedness wasn't enough. The son of a GE factory worker, Nardelli, 56, had spent close to 30 years at that company trying to prove himself as CEO material. In November 2000 he lost a two-year, three-way contest to succeed Jack Welch. "To say I wasn't disappointed would be lying," Nardelli says. "You don't train to come in second." Nardelli bounced back to become CEO of Home Depot, a company half the size of GE, a month later. This time his GE management style and determination are paying...
...tell my London friends that they are being cheated. I rage about the cost of public transport and inform them that in many parts of the world one does not need to buy a ?121-a-year TV license from the government in order to watch the Eurovision Song Contest and re-runs of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. When they look at me, I can hear the Sousa march playing in their heads, but they try to be sympathetic. London can indeed be bloody expensive, they say, but it's not so bad if one makes adjustments. Several...
...stricken America of 1932 and found there were very few jobs for actors and fewer still for football players. He borrowed the family Oldsmobile and wandered through nearby towns, looking for work at local radio stations. A station manager in Davenport, Iowa, asked him to narrate an imaginary football contest, and Reagan poured into the fakery all the enthusiasm of desperation. He was hired for $5 a game...
...temptations, and you choose the one that will get you home at 9 o'clock." Campaign manager John Sears, the Washington lawyer and strategist who had helped Reagan nearly unseat Ford in 1976, believed Reagan should remain aloofly "presidential." The principal result was that he lost the first big contest, the Iowa caucuses, to hard-driving George Bush. With the whole campaign at stake in the upcoming New Hampshire primary, Reagan shifted to the grittier strategy known among aides as "letting Reagan be Reagan." That led to one of the most memorable scenes of the year: the debate in Nashua...
After leading Boston University 12-7 early in the first half, the Terriers went on a 37-5 run to close out the half. BU led by as many as 49 during the contest, before coasting to an 86-42 victory...