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...current council members contend that the body has not endured an insufferable loss from last year's shake-up. "The only problem is that the council has lost its energy which perhaps came from the conflict," Offutt says...
...management shake-up comes at a particularly difficult time for Thompson. Like all other agencies, it has recently been buffeted by a spate of mergers that has intensified competition in an already brutal business. But Thompson faces special problems. While the agency is admired for its creative flair, Thompson's pretax profit margins are estimated to be only about half the industry average. One likely reason for the poor performance: Thompson has been slow to cut costs and lay off workers...
...shake-up left some major questions unanswered. Who would succeed Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping, 82, who had named Hu to the top party post seven years ago and had supposedly groomed him as his political heir? What would become of Deng's sweeping economic reforms, aimed at modernizing agriculture and industry through the use of Western-style technology and limited free-market mechanisms? On the questions of economic and foreign policy, China's two top leaders sought to give assurances that no drastic shifts were in the works. Zhao told a visiting Hungarian official last week that the "personnel changes...
...DEMISE of the board represents a failure of Harvard's one semblence of democracy. A reinvigoration of the body might help shake Harvard from its defensive and isolated stance on many issues. More important, a revival would offer this community a reliable means of influencing a powerful and important leader in education. Even with an injection of vision and enthusaism, Harvard's governing structure will remain quite insulated from what its top officials consider the ravages of democracy. But this May's election puts within reach at least a symbolic reassessment of the board and its powers...
...sorry," he said. At that moment, the garbage can began to shake and rattle, gradually disturbing other pieces of furniture in the room...