Word: rareness
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Blunt talk like that is rare in corporate France, but Ghosn is used to breaking molds. Born in Brazil to Lebanese parents and raised in Beirut, he studied in Paris and graduated from the élite Ecole Polytechnique. In 1978 he went to work for tiremaker Michelin, eventually heading the group's South American operations, based in Brazil, before taking over the North American operations. Recruited to the money-losing Renault in 1996, Ghosn undertook a three-year cost-cutting campaign, ultimately saving the company more than $5.2 billion--and allowing it to take its controlling stake of Nissan...
...media like a brush fire on a dry, windy day. This time the blaze is coming from the hot-selling sleeping pill called Ambien and its apparent ability to compel some users to eat voraciously in their sleep. Never mind the fact that this particular side effect is seemingly rare--or that it was first reported four years ago. Thousands of sleep-deprived Americans are now wondering if Ambien could turn them into mega-munching zombies...
...sleep driving (as opposed to driving under the influence), Silber, who has been doing sleep research for 15 years, has never personally seen a case, either in Ambien users or nonusers. "Not that it doesn't happen, but sleep driving is very, very rare," Silber says. By contrast, he says, sleepwalking probably affects 1% to 2% of the population...
...aggressive.” THE REST OF THE FIELDThe teams are set for the Frozen Four in Minneapolis next weekend, the first to exclude Harvard in four years. Fellow Ancient Eight team Princeton fell to Minnesota on Friday night, 4-0, in a game marred by a rare brawl with 38 seconds left. The win allows the Golden Gophers to advance to its first straight Frozen Four and keeps their bid for a three-peat alive. On Saturday, ECAC regular-season champ St. Lawrence prevailed over Minnesota-Duluth, 1-0, in a goaltending duel. Later that night, Wisconsin held...
...It’s rare to be able to work in a building like this,” Guyton said. “If Corbusier meant [for the room] to be a gallery space, he was actually quite hostile...