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...skaters who, in the 1980s, performed them with declining skill and panache. This year, however, just in time for the Olympics, the sport is reborn with the banishment of the dreaded set patterns. What is left is an effortlessly pleasurable sight for the spectator. Don't know a Lutz from a Salchow? The TV commentators will tell you, or you can ignore the voice-over and just watch graceful young athletes interpret the music in wonderfully tricky ways...
...been felt as severely at the other two Detroit automakers. Ford and Chrysler went through their own major retrenchments in the 1980s and have been able to make stronger commitments to team-production techniques. In terms of corporate structure, "size guarantees you nothing anymore," says Chrysler president Robert Lutz. "It's not necessarily the small buildings that are the most affected by earthquakes. Skyscrapers are just as vulnerable...
Politicians are learning, to their dismay, just how much time and money will be needed. As little as a year ago, they talked of closing the gap between east and west in two or three years. By this spring they were saying four or five. Lutz Hoffmann, director of the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin, puts the recovery time at a decade: "We calculate that about $705 billion of investment will be needed to bring the east up to western standards. That cannot possibly be accomplished in anything less than 10 years...
...gulf war, the top brass and the G.I.s seem to be speaking two different languages -- neither of them English. William Lutz, a Rutgers University English professor, says military strategists have adopted M.B.A.-style buzz words that "represent an emphasis on managerial skills." The men and women in the ranks, however, have a more colorful way of communicating. A sampler...
...during the final quarter of 1990, and the tailspin showed no sign of a letup. Domestic auto sales during the first 10 days of January were more than 31% lower than during the same period a year ago. "Nobody is selling anything. Times couldn't be worse," said Robert Lutz, the blunt-spoken president of Chrysler. "The only people buying are those with 90,000 miles on their cars or people who have had their cars stolen or burned." Concurs his colleague John Rock, general manager of the GMC truck division: "Everybody's in neutral and idling...