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CHALLENGES: The film had the opposite problem of most adaptations. It had to expand an 11-page short story to feature length. The screenwriters filled out the relationships of the cowboy lovers with their wives and families. The rest author Annie Proulx made easy; much of her dialogue is included verbatim in the script...
...plants in Ohio is full of hope. The Japanese company is in expansion mode in the U.S., with the Ohio plants and a third in Alabama ramping up production. Honda is spending $123 million to replace the paint shop at the Marysville, Ohio, plant and another $89 million to expand its nearby parts-distribution center. The East Liberty plant recently launched the stylish new Honda Civic, which last week was named Motor Trend's Car of the Year for 2006. "When I think about Honda's success in Ohio," says John Adams, executive vice president of Honda of America Manufacturing...
...most challenging.” “It’s not so appealing for bicyclists and pedestrians,” she said. In contrast, planners said last spring that constructing the tunnel might be less controversial than other proposals to build a new bridge or expand the Larz Anderson bridge, because a tunnel would not change the aesthetics of the Charles River. Spiegelman also said at Monday’s meeting that if new undergraduate Houses are constructed on the south bank of the Charles, a portion of Soldiers Field Road will almost certainly be decked over...
...free market economy, which values productivity, innovation, and fair competition. In contrast, the same forces that hurt the French economy today also hurt the most vulnerable of its citizens—the immigrants, who are excluded economically, socially, and politically. President Chirac’s plans to expand public spending and create even more rigidities in an attempt to help the disenfranchised are likely to backfire. Ultimately, it is a free and prosperous economy that creates jobs for those needing them most; the best thing the French government can do is implement economic reforms to promote growth and economic expansion...
Change and creativity are Lars Nygaard's two favorite words. Last month the Dane became the CEO of Spanair, Spain's fast-expanding No. 2 airline. Top of his agenda: "Breaking down walls. I want to change the culture in our company," says Nygaard, 39, who was formerly Spanair's CFO. "Where I come from, things are less hierarchical." Nygaard comes from Spanair's parent, the Scandinavian carrier SAS, where he got his start. With his open-plan management and quick response to new ideas, he says, Spanair can thrive in a tough market: "We have a cost structure comparable...