Word: narrow
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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...
...shaped ski, a slim hourglass, is fat tipped, narrow waisted and wide tailed, making it shorter and more flexible than the traditional ski. The curved sides of the shaped ski carve perfect, skid-free arcs when edged into the snow, resulting in more stable and responsive runs for first-timers as well as advanced skiers. More than 60 models are available, and you can get help from manufacturers www.snowlink.com) retailers and ski magazines in choosing. Among the hot skis this year: K2-Four ($600), Volkl Snow Ranger Lite ($475), Salomon X Mountain ($655), Volant PowerKarve ($555) and Rossignol...
...clear that the hearings' emotional center was not the past but Hall's fears for the future. His primary frustration involved a long-held industry custom. Designers have always--"since the first airplane," noted Daniel Cheney, an FAA manager--understood the dangers inherent in cramming electricity into a narrow airborne hull with the flammable vapors that can result when a tank is hot and mostly empty, but they have addressed the problem primarily by isolating or eliminating the sources of possible sparks. Their assumption that further precautions involving the fuel tanks were unnecessary has historically been supported...
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...
Faculty diversity, meanwhile, has been deemed a controversial political issue better handled by student groups. Stewart and Cohen plan instead to fight for causes on which they believe they can make more progress. But Faculty diversity is not a political concern supported by a narrow segment of the student body; it is about undergraduate education and the College experience in the most direct sense. And it is an issue about which many of us care deeply. Indeed, in a Crimson survey on race published last week, a vast 72 percent of the student body said the College "needs more" minority...