Word: succeeded
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...during the creation of the new governing coalition, I am temporarily sending two divisions-30,000 more troops-to pacify that troubled city. If a stable, moderate, inclusive Iraqi government is not created, we may be forced to reassess our military posture in the region. These initiatives may not succeed. But the time for fancy words and grand theories about changing the world has passed. We need to take action...
...final disciplines require building teams and doing so across organizations. Carlson finds that effective teams succeed by continually sharing, implementing and improving ideas. That iterative process, used by Engelbart, is employed on a far larger scale by firms like Google, which publishes beta versions of its new products and feeds consumer responses into development. Building these disciplines into an organization isn't easy, but Carlson notes that the effort would at least be well grounded. "If you're teaching executives creativity and teamwork by having them build paper planes and sending them on rafting trips," he says, "there's something...
...long, he says. Esprit is plotting to replant and revive itself on its former home turf with new stores and a long-term investment plan. To succeed, the company must battle for the fickle American shopper with such entrenched chains as H&M and Banana Republic in a very crowded, hypercompetitive casualwear market. "They're inhabiting the middle of the pack, and it's going to be tough for them to break out," says Steve Harty, chairman of the New York City office of ad agency BBH. Consider the Gap, which is struggling mightily to find its fashion mojo...
...state?s global warming strategy is to succeed, however, it must also fend off an auto industry lawsuit to invalidate its landmark 2002 law requiring carmakers to reduce tailpipe emissions of greenhouse gas and cut CO2 emissions for new vehicles by about 30 percent. And if that law were to be invalidated, California officials will face yet a new challenge: finding other ways to ratchet back emissions to meet the new overall limits it has just enacted...
...four women feel the need to tend to constituencies that may have wandered over from TV, the multiplex or the gossip-mag rack, and inevitably they usher their notoriety into their music. For those of us who like pop for pop's sake, the degree to which the albums succeed is entirely a function of how much the singers keep any mention of their fame--and the distance it creates--to a minimum...