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...mainly, as it turned out, it mattered for formal reasons. Iron is quintessentially structure, not mass. Inside every figure produced by the academies had been a leaner, more abstract presence -- the wire armature on which the clay or plaster was built, hidden by the later work of representation. Just as Michelangelo had imagined the figure latent in the raw marble block, hidden by the superfluities of stone, so it fell to Picasso, Gonzalez and others to imagine a second structure within the conventionally sculpted figure: a kind of iron essence, expressed in line and plane rather than continuous surface...
...West Wing: gone. White House mess privileges, which were what separated the merely important from the princes who whisper in the President's ear, will be extended to the clerks who sort the mail, if they can stand the food there. The White House staff will be 25% leaner starting the next fiscal year. Use of government airplanes will be nearly on a life-or- death basis, and Cabinet officials are urged to fly coach. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, who is less than 5 ft. tall, admitted it will be no hardship for him, joking, "I don't need...
Still, analysts insist that IBM must get even leaner -- perhaps paring at least 50,000 more jobs within the next two years -- if it is to meet the challenge from smaller and nimbler competitors. Says Bruce Lupatkin, an industry analyst: "There's still a lot of fat left." CEO Akers agrees that layoffs are necessary for the company's long-term survival. "Although it's a difficult step to take," he says, "it's one that, given the realities, if we must do it, we must...
...role as just another player. To its credit, IBM appears to be doing exactly that. Although it is coming off what can best be described as an annus horribilis, rivals would be mistaken to underestimate this company in the future. If it can overcome the enormous challenge of becoming leaner and more responsive to shifting demands, and if it can anticipate the next technological wave rather than resist it, Big Blue still has the potential to be a market monster once again...
...anyone and has a pronounced tendency to promise everything to everybody. His standard speech used to contain this all- embracing passage: "We can be pro-growth and pro-environment, we can be pro-business and pro-labor, we can make government work again by making it more aggressive and leaner and more effective at the same time, and we can be pro-family and pro-choice...