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...more. Crowley called an old friend, Clyde Pereira, the chief information officer at Coca-Cola HBC, the company's European distributor, and told him he could make Coke's machines more profitable. Similarly, in early 2005, Stuart Farrell, retail development manager for mobile operator Vodafone UK, and Ralf Pearson, project manager at UTL, a logistics company that works with Vodafone, were discussing ways to improve distribution of prepaid mobile phones - which make up 60% of the U.K. market - when they noticed a candy machine in a tube station. Farrell joked about selling mobiles from vending machines, "and we both laughed...
...book explains why so many Italians voted for him. But it's not pro or against Berlusconi - it explains how much of Italy was in Berlusconi." That is to say, Berlusconi was Italian to a fault. Because of him, "we wasted a few years in terms of the 'national project.'" Do such lost years mean that Italy is inevitably slated for decline? The future is clearly weighing on Severgnini's mind, because it requires a sober assessment of the past. "In Italy, you wonder. You go to the rail station and every wall is written on, lights are smashed...
...first time Marathon (2005 revenues: $63 billion) has ever undertaken a large public-health project, but results have so far exceeded expectations. In just the first two years, the number of infected mosquitoes has fallen 95%, and the number of children 2 to 15 years old with malaria parasites in their blood has dropped from 45% to 26%. (The decline in children lags that of mosquitoes because it takes a while to clear parasites from previous infections.) And malaria cases among Marathon personnel have dropped from 20 to 30 a month to two or three a month...
...been hitting my head against the wall for six years on a big, ambitious project, and I realized, well, even if I get this thing where I like it, who's gonna wanna make a movie that's so unusual? It's like being in love with a woman who doesn't want you. So I thought, well, I'll do what Sofia did and make a more modest film that I can just...
...dynasty (they've won a ridiculous 78% of their games over 26 seasons) and is a highly sought speaker on the corporate lecture circuit. But now, as the coach of the confederacy of millionaires also known as the U.S. national team, he's the CEO of a daunting turnaround project to restore America's basketball and sporting pride. And despite his outward cool, he was scared stiff when he signed on. "Because it's not Duke now, I'm saying, 'Will they actually listen?'" says Krzyzewski (pronounced Sha-shef-skee) in the nasal baritone of a high school chemistry teacher...