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...take ages just to visit all of Tyco's 2,000 locations to present new governance guidelines. "If I were on the road every day for six years, I could visit one a day," Pillmore says. And some of the most important changes, like restoring financial integrity, are the hardest to implement. Each unit's finance chief, for example, now reports to Tyco's chief financial officer but also answers to a business-unit president. "They have to balance that every day, and there are conflicts in doing that," Pillmore says...
...Oscars of the restaurant industry. Since 1994 he has devoted himself single-mindedly to cooking in the 17-table French Laundry in the town of Yountville (pop. 2,916). The Napa Valley restaurant is regularly rated as one of the best in the nation--and one of the hardest at which to snare a reservation. Keller grosses about $7.5 million annually there, and his 1999 French Laundry cookbook is in its 16th printing and has sold 243,000 copies. He expanded his business carefully in 1998 by opening Bouchon, a bistro-style restaurant that is a three-minute walk down...
...largest doubt about Bush's program is whether it will survive past his presidency. The hardest choices about funding manned exploration will come at the very same time those crumbling entitlements require more money too. When John Kennedy first put the nation on the path to the moon in 1961, he had the cold war as his backdrop. Each step closer to the Apollo landing was also a victory over the Soviets, a struggle that animated Kennedy's dream long after his presidency. The war on terrorism does not help Bush in the same way. Putting a man on Mars...
...People are very afraid of being direct, but the times when you need help the most are often the times when it’s hardest to ask,” she says...
...British functions attended by Prince Charles, the hardest-working royal...