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...rapid expansion puts enormous pressure on any company's ability to transmit know-how and technology, especially over long distances and across national cultures. When Toyota opened its Georgetown, Ky., plant in 1988, hundreds of work-team specialists and other experts were transplanted from Japan for several years to make sure the new plant fully absorbed the Toyota way. That kind of hand-holding may still be possible, but it isn't as easy. How can that be fixed? Says Spear: "The big deal is this question, Does an organization know how to hear and respond to weak signals, which...
...other political foes that she's a puppet of Arias, under whom she served as Vice President, and his social-democratic National Liberation Party, to which she belongs as well. The daughter of a former Costa Rican comptroller general, Chinchilla earned a master's degree in public policy at Georgetown University in Washington in the 1980s. But while she often wore indigenous fashions as a college student and criticized the Reagan Administration's involvement in Central America's conflicts, she is a social conservative, opposing abortion rights as well as gay civil unions and efforts to remove a clause...
...Yemen doesn't automatically point to a threat to the homeland. Obama has vowed to improve intelligence sharing, but some experts are skeptical that the system can ever be fail-safe. "The next time, we may not have this many data points," says Bruce Hoffman, a counterterrorism expert at Georgetown University. "It may never be this good again...
...them," he says. Lin is reluctant to mention the specific nature of such insults, but according to Harvard teammate Oliver McNally, another Ivy League player called him a C word that rhymes with ink during a game last season. On Dec. 23, during Harvard's 86-70 loss to Georgetown in Washington, McNally says, one spectator yelled "Sweet-and-sour pork!" from the stands. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
...timing: That the attack took place on Christmas Day is especially suggestive, says Georgetown University terrorism expert Bruce Hoffman. "It's worrisome because it fits into the jihadist vision of a war between Islam and Christianity," he says...