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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sheng) has lost his temper and kicked a man (Liu Pei Qi) where it hurts. But Qiu Ju (Gong Li), the man's wife, is hurt mainly in the pride, and she resolves to get satisfaction for this slur. The local public-security bureau agent, Mr. Li (Ge Zhi Jun), a reasonable politician in a hopeless situation, tells the chief to pay Qiu Ju and her husband 200 yuan in reparation. When she comes to the chief for the payment, he strews 20 10-yuan notes on the ground. "You'll bow your head to me 20 times," he snorts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fire in Her Eyes | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

...manufacturing unit. Many a hired gun might have sized up the problem by looking at production flow charts or pricing tables. Not Magaziner. He hit the shop floor and began taking apart TV sets with his bare hands, assessing the cost of the components, piece by piece. His conclusion: GE's profit margins could be found not in producing the set's electronic components but in building its plastic-and-wood casing and picture tube, a process that could be done most cheaply in the U.S. GE quickly shifted its TV-assembly plant from Japan to Indiana, a move that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radical Surgery | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

...anticipated $20 million profit earner this year. Browne says Wright has promised that "there will be more personnel," but to at least one candidate who declined, that commitment is not enough: "I would hypothetically consider going there only with the personal assurances of Jack Welch at GE that the company really intends to rebuild the news division...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Wants This Job? | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

...after six years of declining spending, and the prospect of four more under Bill Clinton. The deal, which will make Martin Marietta the world's largest defense- electronics firm, with revenues of $12 billion, supports chairman Norman Augustine's conviction that "companies that combine will be the survivors." GE chairman John Welch, worried about holding on to a division too small to compete in a shrinking market, decided to get out while the getting was good. "If you are No. 4, and No. 1 sneezes," said Welch, "you get pneumonia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense Contracting For the Future | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

...round of layoffs immediately, since he will be under as much pressure as Stempel to let the ax fall. Board members picked up tough ideas about what needs to be done in talks last month with General Electric chairman Jack Welch, who earned the nickname "Neutron Jack" by slashing GE's work force in the 1980s. Welch reportedly huddled with Smale and several other directors during a two-day forum of CEOs in Hot Springs, Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Went Wrong? Everything at Once. | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

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