Word: letting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Eventually these changes are going to let us make administration more and more invisible," Oseasohn said...
...policing no-fly zones. Water treatment plants are not rebuilt. The economy is nonexistent, at least in measurable terms. Convoys of the few supplies that actually are ordered by the Iraqi government from the West's watchguards are often diverted, squandered or sold to those who can barely survive let alone pay for what was meant of be distributed for free...
...primary hurdles to widespread adoption of B2B strategies are not technological but organizational and all too human, in the view of Stanford University professor Hau Lee, who has spent his career studying supply-chain management. "Large corporations," he says, "are slower to let go of old business practices. They believe maintaining the status quo will help them preserve their commanding position as a market leader...
...Let's reverse that for a moment. The entrepreneur is Howard Head, who created a metal ski and later an oversize tennis racquet, revolutionizing both sports. He sold his namesake company in 1971 to AMF, a conglomerate that was busted up in the mid-1980s. Head was sold to a leveraged buyout firm, Freeman Spogli, in 1989, which unloaded the struggling company on Austria Tabakwerke, a government-owned firm that bought Head to try to keep its manufacturing jobs in Austria. "They did even worse," says Johan Eliasch, a Swedish merchant banker who took over the company in 1996. "They...
...While civilians are encouraged to read and professional poets show up, it's the cops who are causing the interest, maybe because of contributions like this one from Officer Linda Griffith: "He allows me to walk [amid] the danger./ He lets me extend help to a stranger./ My flesh crawls and I miss him when he's not under my wing./ I don't let people see or touch him, it's a private thing./ So you should be grateful and understand what I've done./ If and when I let you touch the butt...