Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard is a premier training ground for thenext generation of scholars," she said. "We needto maintain that, and in some programs, we need torecover that...
...this marriage-go-round are the Japanese, who, even if they weren't insular and risk averse, are operating in such a depressed economy that it's hard to see them making a bold move. No longer gunslinging international capitalists, Japanese managers prefer to build--and control--from the ground...
Getting new cars out the door in a hurry into hot market niches is one of Chrysler's strengths. It comes from the company's design-driven managers, and from the company's inordinate reliance on outside suppliers. Mercedes engineers everything but the screws from the ground up, one reason it took years to develop its M-Class sport utility vehicle. Scrappy Chrysler could teach it how to develop and roll out in a more timely fashion a superluxurious SUV to compete against the popular Lincoln Navigator...
...Klein had instructed his aides to "let him have his say." Gates argued that Microsoft's contributions to computer technology justified Windows 98's release, despite DOJ's claims that it violated not just a 1995 court agreement but also the basic principles of antitrust policy. Klein held his ground, amazed at Gates' lack of sophistication in realizing to what extent DOJ's action might go beyond Windows 98. The two-hour session produced a stalemate. Gates, said insiders, was "intelligent, forceful and, above all, passionate," but regulators were deaf to his entreaties. As an insider put it, "Windows...
...work uniform. After the December opening--coincidentally, after Meier left--umbrellas were set up to provide some relief on the virtually shadeless plaza. But the glare isn't all. During the winter, visitors were slipping into the lovely rain-swollen pools because they couldn't distinguish where the travertine ground ended and the water began. And while the violations have been corrected, the health department initially graded two of the Getty restaurants a mere...