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...series of the same name, a pair of cockney rag and bone men who batter themselves and each other relentlessly against a dead end of life. Both Yorkin and Lear adaptations follow the same recipe: take one BBC show, add the milk of human kindness and stir for 30 minutes. "One of our major concerns was not to make Sanford look too grim," says Yorkin. "The Steptoe set in England was dark and gloomy; we took pains to make ours poor but not depressing...
...competitive systems like Enron's have a weakness, it's that they can stir suspicion and discourage teamwork. If I help you, you'll get a better rank than I will. Challenger tells of a manager who recently had to rank all his people in preparation for a 10% work-force reduction. "It was agonizing," Challenger says, "because everyone in his department played a unique role." When such choices arise, he adds, "all the relationships instantly become strained...
...competitive systems like Enron's have a weakness, it's that they can stir suspicion and discourage teamwork. If I help you, you'll get a better rank than I will. Challenger tells of a manager who recently had to rank all his people in preparation for a 10% work-force reduction. "It was agonizing," Challenger says, "because everyone in his department played a unique role." When such choices arise, he adds, "all the relationships instantly become strained...
Zacarian also created a stir when she blocked all but one of UMass' 22 shots, including five taken on penalty corners in the first half alone. UMass, ranked No. 9 in the nation at the time, scored the single goal of the game 4 minutes into the second overtime...
...short of what Arafat - or any other Palestinian leader -would be able to accept and survive politically (or even physically). He'd been speaking out of two different sides of his mouth all along, but now the game was up. And that left him no room to maneuver, except stir up confrontation in the hope that it would force the Israelis and their American backers to offer him a better deal...