Word: rooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matron would regard an earnest young suitor. Chrysler marketing chief Jim Holden recalls his first meeting at the Mercedes-Benz U.S. headquarters in Montvale, N.J. As the Germans presented their view of the brand hierarchy--Mercedes on top and everything else far, far below--the tension in the room was palpable. Says Holden: "We felt like we were marrying up, and it was clear they thought they were marrying down...
...merger integration" (PMI) structure in which 12 "issue-resolution teams" are assigned to push and cajole their counterparts into combining everything from supplies to research. Every time there is disagreement, the integration process for that group is halted until a solution is found. Progress is tracked in the "war room," a nondescript office down a dark second-floor corridor in Daimler's imposing brown headquarters in Stuttgart...
...Houston, found the therapists she saw to deal with her own stress either insincere or judgmental. When a friend suggested online therapy, Steele decided to give it a try. Now, each Tuesday night, she logs on to the website concernedcounseling.com for a 50-min. session in a private chat room, typing messages back and forth with a therapist she has never met in person. "He makes himself human," she says, "and he makes me feel human...
Lockheed and Boeing reject this analysis, although Lockheed has named a panel to look into everything that affects production, including scheduling pressures and the maturity of its work force. If there's any consolation for both companies, it's that they probably have a little breathing room before things really start to close in. Satellite makers know that space flight is a tricky business, and they must factor in a 5% to 10% launch-failure rate. And hitching a ride into space aboard some other country's rocket is not easy. Russia knows the space game, but federal quotas limit...
...your kids are under two, turn off all the lights in the room when you put them to bed at night. Don't even leave a night light on, unless you want to increase significantly the chances that your children will grow up nearsighted and have to wear glasses for the rest of their lives. That's the advice issued last week by a group of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania. As someone who has needed glasses since fifth grade, I couldn't believe my eyes when I read their report in the current issue of Nature. It seemed...