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...around an entrenched Japanese bureaucracy. Under his direction, Mazda was transformed from a floundering money loser to an automaker with net income of $66 million in its past fiscal year. Analysts hailed Fields as the next Carlos Ghosn--the executive who led Nissan's dramatic turnaround. Fields' bosses at Ford, which owns a controlling stake in Mazda, were so impressed that they handed him a bigger job: turbocharging Ford's troubled Premier Automotive Group (PAG), made up of Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo...
...watershed was, of course, Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather films of the 1970s--as much a touchstone within the Mob as without. Rudolph Giuliani, the former New York City mayor (and Mob-movie fan), said in his gangbusting prosecutor days that you could tell the difference between surveillance tapes recorded before and after the Godfather movies came out: the hoods started speaking like characters in the films. The movies that mobsters made possible ended up remaking the mobsters...
...Raiffa left Harvard to serve as the Ford Visiting Research Professor at Stanford University. In 1972, he went to Austria where he served three years as the Director of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis...
...recently received a $150,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to fund her work and research...
...series of ads for a Japanese TV network, but Domo-kun has transcended those humble origins to become a cult icon in Japan and America. What's the appeal? With his vicious fangs and sad button eyes, Domo-kun is tough, yet vulnerable. Kind of like Harrison Ford, if Harrison Ford were a small, feral Teletubby. Domo-kun dolls are growing in popular-ity in Japan and there have been several Domo-kun sightings in the U.S. You can catch the creature's TV spots online at drew.corrupt.net/domo.html....