Word: formulaic
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...dorm room in 1984, Michael Dell has steadily, inexorably grown his company into the largest PC manufacturer in the world. The firm, based in Austin, Texas, has overtaken the box business's best-known makers-IBM, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard among them-by executing its unorthodox, build-to-order manufacturing formula. Dell Computer isn't known for product innovation. It wins by being efficient, relentlessly so. In the competitive and increasingly commoditized computer industry, Dell's cherub-faced founder and CEO may be the closest thing there is to an irresistible force...
...withdraw to defensible borders. The 1967 lines are inherently indefensible. They would make central Israel eight miles wide. Eight miles between, say, the massed tank armies of Iraq and Syria to Israel's front and the Mediterranean Sea to its back. This is suicide. Nor, contrary to Abdullah's formula, is Israel going to give up Judaism's holiest shrine (the Western Wall) and Old Jerusalem, continuously inhabited by Jews for centuries until expelled by the Jordanians...
...formula paid off immediately. In the company's first year, Gold says, it turned a profit on $1.5 million in sales, and the ink has been black ever since. Gold and Williams celebrated by acquiring an En-glish bulldog they named Lulu, who has become the company's advertising mascot. In 1998 Gold sold out to the Rowe Cos., owners of Rowe Furniture, which makes upholstered and leather furniture, and two retail chains, Home Elements and Storehouse. The deal afforded Gold financial security, and the ongoing relationship is strictly hands...
...Westerhoff, 28, says the girls are toning down their attire for Asia in deference to regional rectitude. But there are no plans to dump their formula and venture into pop singing, as Vanessa-Mae has. "Few people have gone into this area of music, so it's natural to compare us to her," Eos, 26, says. "But that's okay. She's nice. She bought us some champagne when we bumped into her in Switzerland." Reinventing the string quartet is sweaty work?but it has its perks...
...Palestinians had been "badly beaten" and were ready to accept Israel's terms. Both sides are continuing to negotiate their future relationship - but with weapons. And they'll continue to negotiate that way until such time as they have fumbled their way, with U.S. help, to a new formula for negotiating with words...