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...Reilly's work, though, is far from finished. Daewoo had a loss of $70 million last year and its market share in Korea remains flat at about 10%. Reilly says he's tackling these problems by investing $2.5 billion to refurbish his factories, revitalize research and development, and create new models. Early next year, Daewoo will launch the first SUV designed by its own engineers. "We've made a lot of progress," says Reilly. A full turnaround "shouldn't be that far away." For GM's sake, he'd better be right...
...trace of temper. The burly body remains respectably taut, a gunnysack full of cantaloupes and cannonballs. The seamed and arid face, a slowly eroding riverbed, is as wide open as a gap-toothed grin. It is the map of an obstinate man with 737 doubles who still flings himself flat and breaststrokes like a gopher into second base...
...persuade her to be more forthcoming, but to no avail. After Mrs. Reagan received preliminary findings of the biopsy, she decided to wait and tell her husband the next day, when the couple would be heading for Camp David. Rather than dissemble to reporters, Speakes stuck to a flat "no comment" until the President learned the news and announced the findings himself...
Lemon (Kathryn Pogson) is a neurotic young Englishwoman who sits in her London flat reading about the Nazis, whom she admires, and musing over her childhood, which was dominated by Aunt Dan (Linda Hunt), a slightly sinister friend of her parents. Aunt Dan, it turns out, is crazy, but crazy in the way some people are at cocktail parties; she is able to find a plausible argument for almost any evil that governments commit, and she has turned Lemon into her philosophical clone. "Lemon presents the justification for pure selfishness," says Shawn, "even for sadistic murder. The question is raised...
...moment he needs not only to prove to his colleagues in Moscow's collective leadership that he is not caving in to the U.S., but to keep foreign affairs relatively quiet. Consequently, says one Administration official, "Gorbachev does not lose by having a fairly flat outcome to the summit...