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...whole thing stalled seemingly over whether the company would use American- or European-size business cards. The more tradition-bound Germans dug in their heels, not surprisingly. But the more flexible Yanks wouldn't budge either. "It got all the way up to me, and I said, 'What the hell, they're only business cards,'" Stallkamp recounts--and he chose the slightly wider European style, for novelty's sake...
Chrysler managers thrived on spotting opportunities and going for them, if necessary chucking previous plans as if they were gum wrappers. And here they were, trapped in Stuttgart's planning hell, bristling at constantly being reminded what to do. A top manager coined the phrase "I'm having a bad PMI day." Steve Harris, Chrysler's former communications chief who defected to General Motors in February, says the Germans played literally by the book--theirs. "You'd go into a meeting and have to turn to Volume 7, Section 42, page 597," he recalls. "The Germans pride themselves on analytical...
Installing Linux was not exactly a walk through hell, but there was no way I could have done it without help--another reason to pay for something you can get free. After making absolutely no headway on my garden-variety IBM ThinkPad, I finally called "Thor," a guy in Red Hat's support squad. He checked around and then informed me that I was out of luck. My external CD drive was incompatible with the Red Hat distribution. "Laptops can be a nightmare," he confessed. Bowed, but not broken, I borrowed a desktop PC from the bowels of Time...
...answered, and said that helping others is the best way to work yourself out of it, that if those two lost souls in Littleton had coached a soccer team, visited a hospital, come face-to-face with someone else's little miseries, they might not have "descended into hell." He said, "I don't know a 16-year-old who doesn't have something to give a 9-year...
Annie Proulx twirls words like a black-hat badman twirling Colts, fires them off for the sheer hell of it, blam, blam, no thought of missing, empty beer cans jump in the dust, misses one, laughs, reloads, blams some more. Something like that...