Word: nortons
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...authors give seven (of course!) common failure patterns, and they are not shy about listing the corporate Hall of Shame. The misbegotten strategies include Staying the (Misguided) Course (Kodak); Misjudged Adjacencies (Oglebay Norton); and Fumbling Technology (Iridium). But most relevant to the current Wall Street subprime crisis is the Green Tree Financial Corp. debacle. The firm made trailer-home ownership more accessible to low- and middle-income consumers. At its pinnacle, the company financed more than 40% of trailer homes, many with mortgages for people with bad credit. In 1998, Green Tree was bought by Conseco for a hefty...
...1990s Nicolas Kent, 61, artistic director of London's Tricycle Theatre, began to take government investigations--in his words, "dry" and "not inherently dramatic" inquiries--and stage them as plays. Typically, his collaborator, Guardian journalist Richard Norton-Taylor, starts with thousands of pages of testimony and edits them down to a 21/2-hour show, which Kent then directs. The words delivered onstage are words that were spoken by real people, in real life...
...Susan Norton, the area manager for Boloco, said the giveaway was “our way of reaching out to new customers and also thanking our regulars...
...missions over Afghanistan and Iraq. While most were surveillance - transmitting video back to their ground-based controllers - many involved launching missiles at enemy targets. "The combat contributions of unmanned aircraft systems in today's fight have surpassed all expectations and hold even greater promise for the future," said General Norton Schwartz, the Air Force's new chief of staff, in announcing the staffing shift...
...convergence of an Oscar winner (Voight), an Oscar nominee (Norton), an Oscar wanna-be (Farrell) and a Tony winner (Ehle) ought at least to provide solid acting, and in stretches it manages that. Voight, navigating some dreadful dialogue, doesn't make a misstep; Norton executes his usual business of revealing little but threatening plenty; and Ehle, her head shaved as a cancer patient, deftly underplays her function of providing the poignant feminine touch. But by the the movie's climax, which discards the standard sibling shootout for bare-knuckles barroom machismo, and throws in the instant insanity of a secondary...