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...they tried to get up to speed on their new assignments, they quickly became demoralized, turf wars ensued, and accounts were lost in the shuffle, leaving them all too vulnerable. A concurrent reorganization of the company's byzantine back-office operations, which caused customer bills and orders to pile up, only added to the chaos. As Daniel Kunstler, senior analyst at JP Morgan, puts it, "If the person you want to date stops returning your calls, you might try to find someone else to date, or get very lonely." Some of Xerox's most talented reps, including field generals...
...fervently wished to retain its influence with its dear Slavic brother Slobodan. And it was convinced the whole business was a NATO plot to subjugate Yugoslavia. So Moscow basically did nothing until faced with a Serb fait accompli. Only when Milosevic was clearly on his way out did Moscow pile...
...viruses I came across about a decade back. The software was a sort of digital rogues' gallery, intended to "educate" the user by demonstrating how certain bugs behaved. Activate the "Cascade" demo, for instance, and letters would pop out of your text like rotten teeth and collect in a pile at the bottom of your screen. These domesticated viruses weren't infectious like their cousins in the wild. If you just removed the floppy from the PC, the mischief would cease...
...thought that stuff in your closet was just a pile of old junk...
Perhaps October is the cruelest month. With the happy reunions over and the summer a faded memory, the realities of Harvard hit again. Midterms, project proposals, that looming pile of laundry silently growing in the corner...