Word: rebuilds
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With customers switching rapidly from films and photographs to electronic imaging, Fisher is expected to focus Kodak on digital forms of pictures that can be stored and transmitted by computer. The chance to rebuild Kodak the same way he revamped Motorola thrills Fisher. "To do that twice in my life, that's a big opportunity." But, he adds, "the first order of work will be to % make sure our financial house is in order." As to his financial house, Fisher, who earned $5 million at Motorola last year, could pocket up to $100 million in salary, bonuses and stock options...
...with a U.N. multinational force, but since American troops were coming out rather than going in, he left the detailed work to subordinates. By March, in a hurry to withdraw most of its troops, the U.S. agreed to a Security Council resolution specifying what the U.N. would do to rebuild Somalia while the blue helmets kept security throughout the country. The resolution assigned them some so- called nation-building tasks -- setting up regional councils, for example, looking to eventual nationwide elections. That complex and time-consuming mandate might have set off alarm bells in Washington. But since U.S. forces were...
...There are not resources to rebuild these programs that have been in jeopardy for some time," Stevens said. The decision to eliminate these departments was made after an 18-month study of the School of Arts and Sciences...
These days, I am generally regarded by my friends as the one to call when their Macs crash. I can talk SIMMs, SCSI ports and partitioning with the best of them, and I actually do rebuild my desktop on a regular basis. As I was babbling happily away to my friend Rebecca last year about expansion cards versus junking her old SE, she looked at me and said: "You know, Lori, on the surface you're this mellow History concentrator who writes for the Crimson, but inside there's computer geek just dying...
...urban-renewal schemes are bad almost by definition, since they derive from the bureaucrat's impulse to tidy up, to eradicate funk and chaos in favor of large-scale orderliness; planners fail to see the trees for the forest. During the past couple of decades, the relentlessly-raze-and- rebuild notion of progress has been overtaken by a mania for historic preservation, which is a great improvement. But preservationism can also tend toward the prissy, the anal and the monomaniacal and become a kind of by-the- book undertaker's approach that makes dead and dying downtowns prettier...