Word: motores
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...popular anthem of the era, for example, begins, “We were born to make fairy tales come true,” and presents an image of comrades working “with a flaming motor for a heart.” Boym noted the comic absurdity of the image: “If you know anything about the mechanics of motors, you know that ‘flaming’ is not a good sign!” Propagandistic art, she said, falls apart under close scrutiny because it was not intended for critical analysis. Instead of generating...
...Alewife Brook Parkway resident reported that a white male entered a store, grabbed various DVD box sets, and then fled in a white motor vehicle...
...Linnaean Street resident reported that upon exiting her residence, she observed a male standing at the corner of Linnaean Street and Avon Street, one block north of the Quad. The resident then walked to her motor vehicle and the suspect also walked over, staring at her. She then went back into her residence and the suspect left a few minutes later. Since June of 2004, the suspect has done this approximately twenty times...
...Indeed, when foreign managers have been named to run Asian companies in the past, it's typically been due to a foreign takeover. That was the case in Japan when Renault bought a stake in Nissan Motor and brought in Carlos Ghosn to turn around the troubled automaker. Ghosn's now fabled success is no guarantee that all outsiders are miracle workers, of course, nor does it mean that Asian management is too stodgy and inward-looking to compete globally. Toyota Motor, perhaps Asia's best-run company, has achieved phenomenal international success with homegrown talent...
...Stringer isn't the first foreigner to head a large Japanese company; in 1999, Carlos Ghosn, a Lebanese born in Brazil and educated in France, was appointed to the executive suite of Nissan Motor. The challenge at Sony is no less pressing than that at Nissan; when Stringer told TIME that he was "bedazzled by the problems and demands of the job," he knew whereof he spoke. For Sony's woes are well known. The company that once had a magic touch-creating not just the Walkman, but the Trinitron TV and the PlayStation too-has gone adrift...