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...worry, Dave. It's not yours...
...handy and much acclaimed booklet Swanson's Unwritten Rules of Management had been ripped off from an obscure engineering work published more than 60 years ago. Then, when it turned out that other rules had been lifted from the precepts of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and humorist Dave Barry, the episode became a full-blown public relations disaster for the CEO of Raytheon, a defense contractor based in Waltham, Mass., that has 80,000 employees and more than $22 billion in annual sales. By last week a chastened Swanson apologized at the annual shareholders' meeting, and Raytheon's board docked...
...companies, these are boom times for oil-field-service firms like Schlumberger, whose oil-field revenue is up 34% over last year's first quarter, and high-tech equipment makers like Baker Hughes (up 89%). Rig activity is so strong and demand for energy services so unprecedented, according to Dave Lesar, CEO of Halliburton Co., the Vice President's former outfit, that the oil-field-service conglomerate started raising prices this month. So have others. Oil-drilling ships are renting for $500,000 a day, double the charge of 18 months ago. "The price of oil is a transfer...
...directors. With two differences. One: she had talent, he didn't. Two: Wood's cluelesss movies played in theaters; Bettie's were sold under the counter, mailed in plain brown wrappers. Yet she has been elevated to pulp goddess. The beatification process began in 1980, when artist Dave Stevens created a Bettie character in his graphic novel The Rocketeer. Jennifer Connelly gave her full-figured life in the 1990 movie version, and the cult was under way. A talking Bettie Page tattoo (voiced by Jodie Foster) anchored an episode of The X Files. Robert Foster, in his book The Real...
...great it was to see Brandon...play so well in his last match,” coach Dave Fish ’72 said, adding, “[he] just demolished...