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Kubrick needed to be at his best, for the story turns on a very thin dime. The night after a grand party, at which both husband and wife indulge in potentially dangerous flirtations, she taunts him about his relationships with his female patients and insists on burdening him with a tale of an encounter she had at a seaside resort, where she and a young naval officer eyed each other erotically. Nothing more than that happened, but she tells her husband, in language that is almost identical in novel and screenplay, "Had he called me--I thought--I could...
Take the making of metal buildings and building products: it is a most unglamorous, cyclical and slow-growth business. Yet it yields Houston-based NCI Building Systems more than a dime of operating income on each dollar of sales, according to chairman C.A. Rundell Jr. That is nearly double the industry average. Besides, NCI has grown from a small regional operator to one with 38 plants in 17 states and another in Mexico, and sales of $675 million for fiscal 1998, which ended Oct. 31 (vs. less than $40 million nine years earlier...
...University of Texas. As it grew into a giant, Dell Computer insisted on keeping only a six-day inventory, vs. a six- to eight-week supply for most of its competitors. That not only lowered costs but also gave Dell the ability to turn on a technological dime--a vital capability in an industry in which hot new products may become obsolete well before supplies can be cleared out of the inventory pipeline...
...Tina Brown -? at the city-owned Brooklyn Navy Yard. Until he found out who the cover girl might be: Hillary Clinton, his likely foe in the upcoming U.S. Senate race. And now Rudy?s famous foot has come down -? no Democratic-leaning faux fund-raisers on the city?s dime. "We thought that would lead to an event possibly becoming politicized," Deputy Mayor Randy Levine said Tuesday. "There was the possibility that this thing would turn into a circus...
...wireless technology (and for allowing you to act like a movie mogul). So part of the FCC?s plan is to provide an automated message telling the caller that he/she is calling a cell phone, and that the carrier is about to take the extra money -- besides the dime or so it costs to use a land line -- out of his/her hide. The FCC?s changes, due early in 2000, won?t be irrevocable; the option of caller-only billing would be up to carriers, and therefore up to consumers. But the agency is betting that making the cell phone...