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...closely with suppliers in the future. That will mean assigning more and more work to a smaller number of systems partners, who will in turn contract the work with more outsiders. As a result, the number of suppliers dealing directly with Ford is expected to continue dropping. "For the Escort, we worked with about 700 suppliers directly, and for the new Focus it's only 210," he says, talking about Ford's European models. "For the car we're planning as a replacement for the Fiesta, it will be 100 maximum...
...Restaurant, Prudential Tower, 800 Boylston Street, Boston, Jan. 25, 1999. Bret Easton Ellis and his escort sit in the 52nd-story lounge looking out on a stunning panoramic view of the nighttime Boston skyline. Jonathan Paul, Shara Kay, and Crimson photographer John Coyle join them. Below is an excerpt from the conversation that followed...
...next tough transition was crossing Iraq. I was shot down twice over the stupid no-fly zone! I finally arrived in Kyrgyzstan only to realize I did not speak Kyrgyzstani. No problem. The client had an escort waiting for me at the port, and he spoke flawless pig Latin, the global language of choice for consultants...
...draw the men more closely into the Christian community to which most of them already belong. He has set up an 800 number for mariners in need of emergency pastoral care far from home, and in three months has logged 7,000 land miles in his white Ford Escort, recruiting shoreside ministers to respond. Boarding the Grainger at the Robert C. Byrd lock in West Virginia, he forgoes preaching in favor of hearing the crew's news and distributing the prayer schedule of the institute's tiny Paducah, Ky., chapel: the boatmen can join in as their work shifts...
...even his deputy, I.O.C. vice president Dick Pound, has said Samaranch possesses "the loudest nonvote anyone can imagine.") Governor Leavitt's office confirmed that an internal ethics panel of the S.L.O.C. was investigating allegations of prostitution, including whether some committee members' credit cards were used to pay for escort services for visiting I.O.C. members. And sources close to the S.L.O.C. probe say only about 2% of the bid committee's spending has been analyzed...