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...understand Trotman's management style, look at the Mustang. To save the company's new muscle car from the scrap heap -- a mission he took on as a personal project -- he allowed free reign to a skunk-works operation where teamwork and cooperation replaced procedures and hierarchies. One innovation that might never have fitted into an organization chart: putting engineers and computer designers into the same test cars just to keep their very different technical worlds focused on the real product. Trotman and other key Ford executives checked up on the Mustang project in after-hours visits by the back...
...mitigate student competitiveness, to improve the consistency of grade values and to make the grading system altogether more logical, Harvard should scrap the 15-point system and supplant it with the conventional 4.0 system...
Later that same evening, Marianne phoned her parents again, this time to scrap the plans. She and Mahmud had decided to stay in New York, she explained. In reality, her husband was already in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, having flown there three days earlier from New York's Kennedy airport. He then made his way to his hometown in Egypt, where he was hauled into custody by government agents, who, according to Mahmud's wife, stripped him naked, hung him by his feet and burned his genitals. "The Egyptians told him that if he didn't confess ((to the bombing)), they...
After dismembering the cars, Wills and his cronies -- most of them fellow body builders -- would burn the identification plates and sell the scrap metal to a junkyard. The usable parts were then loaded into a rented 24-ft. Penske trailer and hauled to a salvage yard in West Hazleton, 70 miles northwest of Philadelphia. There, Wills' All-Brand Auto Parts received cash for the stolen goods. The FBI suspects, but cannot prove, that the salvage yard was placing orders to Wills to steal particular brands of cars...
...days after his strong showing in a national referendum, Yeltsin declared that those who do not share his aims "should simply leave," and called for new parliamentary elections by the fall. The President's prediction of a battle with the parliament over his new draft constitution, which would scrap the conservative Congress of People's Deputies, was immediately fulfilled: parliamentary leaders presented their own rival draft, specifically designed to limit the President's powers...