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...Hurd quickly stopped work on product lines like televisions where HP wasn't already either No. 1 or No. 2. Next he consolidated the data centers from which HP conducted its operations, going from 85 to six. Once the financial crisis hit, Hurd slashed salaries across the board, including his own by 20%. "In an environment like this, there's no margin for error and no tolerance for inaction," Hurd wrote in a staff memo last year...
...luxury vehicles had been sold since its November debut, executives decided to err on the side of caution following the revelation that Toyota had withheld information about gas-pedal problems in a number of its most popular cars. A week before the Lexus stoppage, the car manufacturer was hit with a $16.4 million federal fine for its failure to report the gas-pedal defect...
...Harvard’s hitters helped Suter out too. Before the second-year hurler even hit the mound in the bottom of the first, the Crimson had mounted a one-run lead thanks to the bat and speed of junior Sam Franklin. Shortly after junior Dillon O’Neill had been picked off, Franklin hit a deep ball down the right field line for what looked to be a triple. But a throwing error by Yale’s rightfielder allowed Franklin to reach home plate for the first run of the game...
Placing my mouth at the bottom of the cold block, I watched as he poured vodka onto the top of the track carved in the ice. A grimace already starting to grip my face, I awaited the bitter taste of Rubinoff to hit my tongue...
...Well, even if I am, that’s fine. Better to be a one hit wonder than have no hit at all. And the success of “Life of Pi” is a freak success in the sense that it’s a literary novel; it’s not a thriller, it’s not a genre novel, it’s a literary novel. And to have done that well, it can’t be reproduced...