Word: sheet
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...describes its new offspring as a "clean sheet" operation. While wholly owned by GM, the company will have its own network of dealers, its own labor contract with the United Auto Workers, its own factory, engineering and design staffs, and even its own president. He is Joseph J. Sanchez, 54, a former Oldsmobile division boss and head of GM Latin American subsidiaries. Sanchez will operate much like the chief executive of a totally new and independent company. Said Smith: "We are not going to handicap him with a lot of preordained rules." Freed from the heavy, established GM structure, Saturn...
Other market advisers are rallying around Lowe, who has continued to issue his 5,000-subscriber Lowe Investment & Financial Letter, a tip sheet that sells for $195 a year. They note that newspapers and magazines do not have to be licensed. Said Norman Fosback, president of the Florida-based Institute for Econometric Research, which produces five investment letters with 60,000 subscribers: "Hopefully, the Supreme Court will now rule once and for all that the First Amendment applies equally to every American." Support also has come from such newspapers as the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, which have...
...Chicago public school, Teacher Robert Creighton wraps himself in a sheet before entering class. "When I walk into the room in a toga," he explains, "I've got everyone's attention." He holds it with a Latin version of What's My Line?, spelling bees and a puppet show starring a mouse named Equus Eddie. In Fairfax, Va., Maureen O'Donnell awards daily bonus points to high school students who can pick out pop items like Top 40 song titles scribbled in Latin on the blackboard...
...white sheet used to show the slides before each of the play's nine scenes only distracts from the action in front. If, however, the bedsheet serves a vital symbolic purpose for Wingrove's vision of modern love and commitment, then he fails to show us what...
...profitably. Exxon has expressed interest in Karmarkar's program to help improve its allocation of supplies of crude oil among various refineries. For many large companies, says Graham, finding the best solution, as opposed to one that is merely workable, "can mean the difference between a good balance sheet and a mediocre...