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...crack at détente 20 years ago has a state visit aroused so much exhilaration ... Teng's determination to modernize China's backward industry by the year 2000 led him to request tours of the advanced technology production lines for which U.S. industry is celebrated. During a 24-hr. swing through Georgia, he will visit the Ford Motor Co.'s assembly plant near Atlanta. His tour guide: Henry Ford II. Dinner that night at the mansion of Georgia Governor George Busbee will feature spinach soufflé, thinly sliced veal and vanilla mousse--all foods especially selected for eaters unskilled...
...arrived 20 minutes late for the review. During our discussion, he took three telephone calls and allowed us to be interrupted twice by colleagues who had "urgent" or "important" matters to discuss with him. We never finished the review, and he never signed off on it. HR never got after him to sign off on the review, either...
...experience. While the microinequities seemed innocent (e.g., asking me to get the coffee and/or make copies or introducing me by the wrong name to opposing counsel during a conference call), I quickly grew tired of it all. I quit after only 11 months. During my exit interview, the HR manager commented, "And to think of all the money we spent on recruiting..." (Recruiting lawyers, especially from top-tier law schools, is unbelievably expensive!) I absolutely love my new job! Glad to be gone...
...compared to the three-year ordeal of putting J.R.R. Tolkien?s fantasy trilogy on the Prince of Wales stage in Toronto. How to choreograph the great battles Tolkien described? To visualize the dozen realms in the great saga? To blend narrative, drama and music in a 3-1/2 hr. production, and do it all without retakes and post-production computer effects? Most daunting, how to satisfy the million of Tolkien fans whose image of Middle-Earth has been molded by many readings of the text, not to mention Peter Jackson?s Oscar-winning film version...
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