Word: slash
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Flashiness is something this industry has largely lost. The exception: Advanced Micro Devices CEO Hector Ruiz brought Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash onstage for a rendition of Knockin' on Heaven's Door. It may become Comdex's eulogy...
...newly merged company, which posted $35 billion in revenues in its first six months. Can she go from being a Churchillian leader, adept at giving a "We will never surrender" speech, to being more of a Lou Gerstner, IBM's former CEO, who was able not only to slash costs and jettison unpromising lines of business but also to steer the company toward new prospects and profits...
...party that so often looks to slash layers from the federal government then support the creation of an entirely new cabinet department? Conservatives are torn on the creation of this department because it forces them to choose between protection against terrorism and small government, according to Chris J. Burger, a spokesperson for the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank. “If the private sector were able to solve these problems, that would be great, but this is something we have to do,” he said...
...from the other side. Around the same time, Hans Namuth was photographing Jackson Pollock from all angles as the American artist dripped, splashed and poured paint onto canvas. Fifteen years later, Milan photographer Ugo Mulas had something similar in mind when he asked his friend Lucio Fontana, famous for slashing through large monochrome canvases, for a chance to record his unusual technique for posterity. The resulting six-photo series is presented alongside a new exhibition of the artist's work at Verona's Palazzo Forti. We see the elegantly-dressed Fontana approaching a solid white canvas, a Stanley utility knife...
...realized I hurt some people’s feelings,” Blackburn says. “But the point of the cartoon wasn’t to slash ECHO. I just thought that there were some problems with the aggressiveness of their campaign. I think most of my friends still like...