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...unstable as hell. One day you'd run a voltage through a sample and see one thing; the next day you could run the same voltage through the same sample and get a different reading. It was a nightmare. Of course, if you could fix that little problem, you'd be onto something...
...confuse casual with unchallenging. Grove sets the tone, and it is always demanding. The people (mostly men) who work for him have inherited (and enforce) an engineer's creed that brings a bloodless "just fix it" intensity to everything from human relations to fabrication. "When I was at Intel, one of the most important values was discipline," says venture capitalist John Doerr, who worked for the firm for six years in the 1970s. "Andy Grove had no tolerance for people who were late or meetings that ran on without a purpose. It wasn't that he was a hard...
...enemy (the effort to inflate Saddam Hussein to that stature was seen as nonsense). There was the apparent end of ideology as the two main political parties settled on common and largely commonsensical ground. With all such monumental successes, people may have looked around for failures and things to fix. Toward the end of the year, the President hit on the topic of racism, but there seemed to be little desire to tackle an issue by "dialogue" that might better be solved with jobs and education...
...anything could have touched it off; that 970 other currently active 747s may be at some risk for the same catastrophe, especially when the air conditioning is overworked; and that, in Hall's opinion, the industry has been remiss in checking those planes for danger and researching ways to fix the tanks. According to papers released by the Federal Aviation Administration, the fuel tanks of 26 planes--13 civilian and 13 military--have blown up since 1959. By week's end frequent flyer and Senate majority leader Trent Lott pronounced himself "very nervous" and promised hearings on the topic...
...inspiration for MAGIC came from a newspaper article Adam saw about the Camden chapter of Christmas in April, a national organization that recruits people of all ages and skills to fix up homes in disadvantaged neighborhoods. "It sounded like a nice project, and something my friends would be interested in too," says Adam...