Word: margined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years Grove enforced that narrow margin with a quick, violent temper--the polar opposite of his mentor, Moore. New employees at Intel suspected it was a management trick: Andy getting mad to get results. What they discovered was that the anger was real. Grove had an internal code of excellence, and when someone didn't live up to it, he hammered him. In 1984 FORTUNE named him one of America's toughest bosses. Sometimes even he recognized that he had gone too far. "After I cooled down, I apologized," he wrote of one '80s encounter that had him bellowing...
...election of Kim Dae-jung, 73, is being hailed as South Koreans' lunge for mature democracy. The margin of his victory, a single percentage point, is a sign of how tightly the ruling party could still hold on even after the outgoing government had shown itself to be rife with corruption and had presided over South Korea's fast trip from the world's eleventh-largest economy to being on the IMF dole...
Make way for the reformers. Last week, by fewer than 50 votes, Beth A. Stewart '00 was elected president of the Undergraduate Council. Her running mate, Samuel C. Cohen '00, also triumphed by a narrow margin. Our new leaders pledge to steer the council away from progressive politics and toward more realistic goals. They want to focus on student services and prioritize issues on which they know they can see results...
Priority number one for the Crimson, however, is doing away with the Huskies tonight. Northeastern holds a 8-7 lead in the all-time series record between the teams, but Harvard has won the last three meetings by an average margin of 12 points...
Moreover, after assigning the sales job to its Saturn division, famous for customer satisfaction, GM offered such a stingy profit margin to dealers that they lose money on the business. The lackluster marketing has prompted dark mutterings about GM's motives. Is the company discouraging consumers so as to convince regulators that quotas should be abandoned? Why isn't the EV1 available in more states? Why is the car offered only for lease, with no purchase option? GM executives protest that if they'd set out to prove electric cars a failure, they would never have spent six years...