Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...audience to become truly involved in the increasingly complicated plotline, the production's pace cannot go slack. Wait Until Dark is a psychological chess game: We must be privy to all of Suzie's moves and the thought process driving them...
Wait Until Dark is a slick piece of entertainment--and thankfully, the director and actors recognize this. Instead of slowing the pace down to concentrate on character interpretation or individual relationships, the production instead moves with the full intention of involving and scaring the audience with a truly terrifying story. And they succeed--once the lights go out and the black darkness settles, we're all blind...
Using that formula, which cut his margins to the bone, it was imperative that Wal-Mart grow sales at a relentless pace. It did, of course, and Walton hit the road to open stores wherever he saw opportunity. He would buzz towns in his low-flying airplane studying the lay of the land. When he had triangulated the proper intersection between a few small towns, he would touch down, buy a piece of farmland at that intersection and order up another Wal-Mart store, which his troops could roll out like...
...ahead. As early as 1966, when he had 20 stores, he attended an IBM school in upstate New York. His goal: to hire the smartest guy in the class to come down to Bentonville, Ark., and computerize his operations. He realized that he could not grow at the pace he desired without computerizing merchandise controls. He was right, of course, and Wal-Mart went on to become the icon of just-in-time inventory control and sophisticated logistics--the ultimate user of information as a competitive advantage. Today Wal-Mart's computer database is second only to the Pentagon...
1900s Financial institutions can't keep pace with the economy. The Panic of 1907 was one of many credit crunches that plagued the U.S. before it established the Federal Reserve...