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Only items in plain view were inspected, and Yard Operations only reported violations of fire safety regulations, administrators said...
More attention must be paid to "plain old operations," Kutnick says. Even if a company outsources some of that, it will still need knowledgeable, experienced managers to coordinate those relationships. That will be even more important as dotcom competition deepens and any potential shake-out looms...
...example, has been accused of taking some $6 million in campaign contributions from drug barons. "There's general agreement that President Pastrana is pretty clean," says McGirk. "But it's hard to know how deep the corruption in the military goes. It's definitely there, because it's plain to see that the FARC sometimes has access to intelligence about raids by the military before they occur...
...their stoops, kids playing, pickup trucks winding along two-lane country roads. To this untutored Yankee, it was a first glimpse of what I had known only from fiction and song, from Flannery O'Connor to Hank Williams. And it did look different, from the dusty streets to the plain-lettered signs for BBQ and general stores...
...Seeing Mary Plain (Norton; 939 pages; $35), Frances Kiernan, a former fiction editor at the New Yorker, has written a portrait not only of McCarthy, the critic and novelist, but also of her literary generation. Kiernan's book teems with a splendid cast of characters--starting with McCarthy's Partisan Review crowd of the 1930s and '40s (Philip Rahv, William Phillips, Delmore Schwartz and Dwight Macdonald), then widening to include other figures in McCarthy's busy, contentious life, including Wilson, whom she called "the monster," her unexpected soul mate Hannah Arendt and dozens of gifted walk-ons, such as Robert...