Word: meaner
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Stringer will be asked to export that leaner, meaner strategy to Japanno easy task. One knock is that in a company dominated by engineers, he isn't an engineer. "I'm not a musician, yet I manage a music company," he counters. "I'm not an actor, and I manage Hollywood." His goal: to concentrate on products, not process, which has choked innovation at Sony. "We have to find a way to streamline the place," he says, "to focus on engineers and products and get out of the way." But he also has to rid the company of its infamous...
...leaner and meaner company, no doubt. Yet Wall Street still isn't convinced that Kodak can compete in the digital marketplace. Its latest camera, EasyShare-One, available this summer for $600, features the largest display screen around, a memory capable of holding 1,500 high-resolution images and, for an extra $100, wireless communication. But competition is intense, especially in photo printing, which is still where the money is. In film, Kodak had only two major competitors, Fuji Photo Film in Asia and Agfa-Gevaert in Europe. Now, both its old foes are in the printing market...
Howie Carr. Meaner than a junkyard dog, this three-times-a-week Herald columnist doubles as a radio talk show host and is about as even-handed as Rush Limbaugh. Stamping each column with his mark of bitterness and contempt for all things left or even moderate, Carr implicates the entire Herald by association, lowering the “acceptable” bar so that it is physically touching the floor...
While the FleetCenter’s floor was erupting in applause and campaign signs, Harvard students watching the speech from the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics overwhelmingly embraced Kerry’s leaner, meaner message...
...He’s had to change his attitude to go after college players,” Lingman said. “[He’s had] to be a little bit meaner than he really is, because he’s one of the nicest guys...