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...state-owned diesel-engine plant in Wuhan, found his factory, like many others in China, heavily overstaffed. "If I fired 700 people [out of a total of 2,140], we could make the same number of engines with better quality because we would have money," he says. But he quit in despair because party officials would not let him make that and other changes he considered essential. Mao's tradition of "the iron rice bowl"--that is, lifetime employment--dies hard...
...Spanish called a radio station in Málaga, Spain, and claimed that both attacks had been carried out by the "Abu Nidal organization." Officials in Italy, Austria, Israel and the U.S. all took the claim seriously. Abu Nidal is the code name used by Sabry Khalil Bana, 45, who quit Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization in 1973, contending that Arafat had softened his opposition to Israel. Abu Nidal, in turn, was condemned to death by the P.L.O. Interviewed by Arab reporters recently in Libya, where he reportedly established a headquarters a few months ago for his Fatah Revolutionary Council...
...social worker says. "They pick up their life at home," leaving a marginal baby in the hospital's care. Some literally do not have bus fare to visit. Nurses tend to get frustrated and move on quickly. "Why don't these parents love their babies?" one asked when she quit recently...
...aspects of his life, Burr, 44, is gripped by something he calls the "perfection imperative." He quit smoking 2˝ years ago, for example, wants to lose 20 lbs. and frets about his caffeine habit. Burr thinks everyone has the same imperative, but his constant effort to draw it out of subordinates can sometimes backfire. Four top aides have quit, and another was fired. Said one insider: "He divides the world into people who overdeliver and those who underdeliver...
...quit Texas International in January 1980 to start his own airline. "He's absolutely fearless," a member of People's board of directors observes. "He takes business risks that are unbelievable." As he assembled People Express in Newark, the new boss used Army-style screening tests to make sure job applicants had the same daring spirit that he did. By November 1980 Burr had gathered together a band of renegades who were attracted by People's you're-the-boss structure. They included a flight scheduler and a personnel manager. The new company issued stock, raising enough cash...