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...economy could doom a company when the economic pie starts shrinking. Take the auto industry. Toyota is weathering the recession far better than its American counterparts not just because it has been making the fuel-efficient automobile customers wanted - though that helped a great deal - but because the Japanese giant makes a fetish out of efficiency. (The term for it in Japanese is kaizen, or continual improvement.) Even Wal-Mart, once environmental Enemy Number One, has made its Byzantine supply chain greener and more efficient - and spreading those values to its network of suppliers. The message is sinking...
...year-old pipsqueak, and I was working for an 80 year-old giant in the law,” she said...
...this means Geithner will be a success as Treasury Secretary. He's still got to actually succeed at nursing the financial system back to health. "Hank [Paulson] was in emergency-room care," says Paul McCulley, a managing director and head of the short-term-bond desk at money-management giant Pimco, "whereas Tim is still in emergency-room care but also preparing a room for further care after the emergency." He at least shows signs of having a good bedside manner...
...men’s 10K Freestyle event. In the men’s 15K Classic race, junior Trevor Petach, McCahill, and freshman Joe Tofte finished together in 54th-, 55th-, and 56th-position, respectively, to collect 27 points towards Harvard’s efforts. In the men’s Giant Slalom event, the Crimson alpine team was paced by freshman Kevin McNamara’s 38th-place effort. Kinner failed to finish the race, as he broke one of his skis at the tenth gate of his first run, slamming into one of the many ruts on the course, which...
...Burton's" was actually Henry Selick's; he directed the film under Burton's supervision. Selick next directed James and the Giant Peach, which managed to improve on the Roald Dahl children's book, and Monkeybone, a pretty frantic mix of live-action and animation. All these films owe less to the chipper confections of Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks than to Euro-cartoonery like The Triplets of Belleville and the work of Czech animator Jiri Trnka...