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...programs that in turn earn some $700 million in export revenues. Says media expert Davis: "In the BBC, Britain probably has one of the most powerful, dynamic and aggressive public-sector businesses anywhere in Europe and maybe in the world." Dyke plans to make the venerable institution leaner, meaner and much more dynamic...
...progress and the largest white man I have ever seen sitting in my spot. My marker is gone and in its place is $10 worth of his money. At first, I shoot my new friend a mean look. But, from beneath his Fubu ski cap, he shoots me a meaner one. I demur. He's gone after two hands and I resume my place...
...maker Wang in the late '80s. As Wang's business eroded--in part because Wang didn't listen to customers--Chambers, the top sales executive, was forced to lay off 4,000 workers. He vows never to do that again, even if it means keeping his company leaner and meaner than seems necessary. "Laying off workers in a tough job market was the worst feeling in the world," he says as he sips his fourth Diet Coke of the day. "It made me physically...
...Juarez cartel has risen faster than most tech stocks, thanks to the vision of its late founder, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, and the ruthlessness of his dumber but meaner younger brother Vicente. For a long time, Mexican criminals were simply subcontractors whom the Colombians paid a set fee, usually $1,500 to $2,000 per kilogram, to truck cocaine over the U.S. border and to warehouses in California or Texas. There, Cali cartel employees would reclaim the goods, move them to major retailing hubs like Manhattan and Los Angeles and wholesale them to distributors. The Colombians pocketed a chunk...
...important is the potential for a New York subway ride to become a veritable sing-along. There, one can actually "Take the A Train," and it's great fun to sing the "Welcome Back Kotter" theme song while entering Brooklyn. The trouble, of course, is the bevy of thugs (meaner than Vinny Barbarino) and wayward youth who scare timid passengers, especially tourists, into silent submission. Nevertheless, the subway's filth fairly represents the less attractive features of city life. If Jefferson and Hamilton had had to ride the New York subway to work every day, we might all be living...