Word: outfit
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...articulated by Thompson is that it will go on doing what it has been doing but with fewer people, a greater impact and higher standards. Quality is the key, whether it's straight news or comedy that spills out of a character's absurdly tight latex outfit. It's the only way the Beeb can bear out this claim by Byford: "The BBC is here to make the world a better place." Perhaps it has to start at home...
...Foreign drugmakers are happy to oblige. Both U.K.-based AstraZeneca and Swiss outfit Novartis have announced plans to spend $100 million on new R&D labs in Shanghai. In June, the U.S.'s Eli Lilly pledged to spend $300 million within the next five years. Britain's GlaxoSmithKline started 17 drug trials in 2006 and plans to double that number this year...
...land at a farther point on the runway and at a slower speed to conserve fuel and reduce wear and tear on tires. Half of AirAsia's tickets are sold over the Internet, eliminating travel-agent fees. Passengers pay for their food and drinks. When a professional aviation-construction outfit demanded $20 million to build a hangar at Kuala Lumpur's airport, Fernandes instead asked the small contractor who had built his home to do it for $500,000. "There is a lot of excess in the airline industry," he says. "The challenge is to change the mind...
...deal for LensCrafters, Luxottica also got the midmarket women's-clothing chain Casual Corner. Luxottica couldn't find a buyer for the poorly performing outfit and after two years was on the verge of liquidating it when Del Vecchio said he'd buy it himself. Why? "It was a gut feeling more than anything else," he says. So Del Vecchio left day-to-day operations at Luxottica to strike out on his own. Within a few years, the hemorrhaging at Casual Corner had stopped?and Del Vecchio was looking to expand into additional retail concepts...
...have a cell phone or e-mail address, but FM was able to catch up with the multi-talented guru—but only after he attended to a mass of adoring fans, the last of which presented Berensohn with an apple in thanks. Clad in a flowing white outfit and sporting a snowy ponytail (but no shoes), Berensohn was finally free to enlighten...