Word: refocusing
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...that invented consumer photography more than a century ago into the fast-moving, low-margin world of the digital era. He has little choice. As digital cameras have grown in popularity, Kodak's profitable film business has gone into free fall. Not the first Kodak CEO to try to refocus the company on the digital future, Carp is clearly taking the biggest risks. He put his marker down 16 months ago when he announced that Kodak would cut dividends, slash investments in its film business--and milk its declining profits to fund $3 billion worth of acquisitions and investments crucial...
Simply slapping another set of restrictions on already snubbed first-years is not the answer to dining hall overcrowding, a problem which seems to rear its ugly head year after year. If Quincy implements Adams-like dining hall restrictions, first-years will simply refocus their attempts to escape Annenberg on the next closest upper-class dining hall...
...including book-value declines) will be some $300 million. Lego is being battered from all sides. Today's children increasingly prefer Xboxes to plastic blocks; sales in Japan and the U.S. have been unexpectedly sluggish; and the company suffers from overcapacity in a low-growth industry. Trying to refocus on its core business, the 72-year-old company is even considering selling such assets as the Legoland parks. CEO Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, grandson of Lego's founder, has had enough. He is handing the reins to Knudstorp, 35, a business economics Ph.D. who has been with Lego for only three...
...Kooning's moment of art-world pre-eminence was brief, from the death of Pollock in 1956 to the early 1960s, when the imperturbable cool of Pop began to make the surplus drama of Abstract Expressionism look dated and overwrought. To refocus his ambitions, he moved to the Hamptons, on the east end of Long Island. But isolation intensified his drinking problem. Whole months could be spent guzzling Johnny Walker Red. The worst bouts sent him to the hospital for weeks at a time. Much of his work from the '60s was inebriated--slack or shrill...
Secondly, the Democrats should make inroads on Republican ideological turf and attempt to refocus dialogue. Specifically, two areas that are ripe for the taking are the debate on criminal justice and faith-based initiatives. The proposition in California that sought to reform their infamous “three strikes” laws was defeated, but the support may be present nationwide to curtail the growth of the prison-industrial complex. Curbing mass incarceration would certainly curry favor with black voters, and it wouldn’t even have to be cast as an explicitly racial issue. The unchecked growth...