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...started plowing money into manufacturing technology. Hyundai invested in design centers in California, Michigan, Germany and Japan. And, like other big automakers, Hyundai began to integrate its suppliers into the manufacturing process, which drove down costs--and mistakes. Last year Hyundai Motor all but cut ties to its eponymic parent, Korea's largest industrial conglomerate, which like many of its counterparts is mired in a web of debt and bad investments...
Given all these complexities, it's a triumph for any of us ever to leave the house. But that's exactly what we need to do, actually and figuratively. Lois Nightingale, a clinical psychologist in Yorba Linda, Calif., notes that dating is an adult experience and advises parents to leave their children out of it. She recommends against bringing a casual date home to spend the night. In fact, she suggests that parents refrain from introducing their dates to their children until a firm relationship has been established, if only to protect the kids from prematurely developing an attachment...
...asked by his boss at the Chinese Academy of Sciences to go xia hai--literally, "jump into the sea"--abandon research and launch a computer company. Last month that company, Legend Holdings, partnered with AOL Time Warner (parent of TIME) to expand Internet service in China. With Legend granted a 51% stake in the venture, Liu, 56, appears poised to lead the opening of a massive Net market...
...have seen a partial divergence on this case. That doesn't mean there was a right decision and a wrong decision. But take a merger that was larger than this one, AOL Time Warner [parent company of TIME]. There the European Commission authorized the merger well before the FTC did, and I would say with less heavy remedies...
...move too quickly, without assessing the E.U. regulators? Should you have paid more heed to their rejection of the deal by Time Warner [parent company of TIME...