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Rather than simply demanding that their key suppliers cut costs overnight, as GM is now doing, Chrysler enlisted supplier support to make design and engineering changes that would add value and boost productivity. As a result, Chrysler's parts suppliers have turned in 3,900 suggestions that have saved the company an estimated $156 million in production costs...
...Limbaugh's rise is the traditional American success story, rewritten for the Reagan-Bush era. Less than a decade ago, he was out of radio and out of work; he was fired from five jobs, broke twice. Now he is rich and famous; this June he was an overnight guest at the White House, and the President carried Limbaugh's bag. His juicy fulminations against "feminazis" (militant pro-abortionists), "commie libs" (pretty much anyone to the left of Archduke Ferdinand) and "environmentalist wackos" (tree huggers) have won him the admiration and courtship of many of the right people...
Word of the find spread, and over the weekend about two dozen curiosity seekers trudged to the site. Some collected fragments of garments and tools as souvenirs, and one used a pickax to free the body from the melting ice. Overnight, however, the temperature dropped. By the time Innsbruck forensics expert Dr. Rainer Henn arrived to investigate the death, on Monday, Sept. 23, the body was again locked in ice. Having neglected to bring tools, Henn and his team resorted to hacking it out with a borrowed ice pickax and ski pole, largely destroying the archaeological value of the site...
...real deficit-elimination plan could hardly be enacted overnight. Perot himself says it would take at least a year. And a five-year plan would suffer inevitable slippage. Look at past fiscal diets, like Gramm-Rudman. If the goal of a balanced budget actually produced, say, an annual deficit under $100 billion by the year 2000, that would be widely regarded as a spectacular success...
...saying the federal budget should be balanced overnight. But to say it shouldn't be balanced over five years is as good as saying it shouldn't be balanced at all. Political cycles and economic cycles both dictate this reality...