Word: tiring
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Flat tire on the Santa Monica freeway. You'd think Geffen and those guys would really have better things to do than sabotage my Michelins...
...what we do better and better - more refinement, not only in the kitchen but with the total image." Rewarding as honors may be, these guys didn't go into the business to pursue stars or to please a bunch of anonymous critics who write for a tire company. "People have forgotten that cooking is above all about enjoying yourself," says Savoy. "It's the art of transforming ingredients, which each have their own story, into joy." I'll have some of that, please...
...also never tire of learning that wealth and fame are likewise no defense against age, decrepitude and death--another lesson that Galella's pictures teach by reminding us that the aging celebrities of today were once shiny and nubile. We have become so accustomed to the superannuated rubble that is the Rolling Stones, it's possible to forget that Mick Jagger was once supple. Or that Goldie Hawn was once the age that she would like us to think she still is. Maybe it's the constant glare of those cameras flashing, but celebrities fade like old books...
...incentives like discounts and 0% loans, the offering is expected to be massively oversubscribed. The meeting also marks the retirement of Edouard's father, 75-year-old patriarch François Michelin, who took the helm in 1957. With his focus on technological innovation - the company invented the radial tire - and almost cultish devotion to the customer, he transformed Michelin from the world's 10th-ranked tiremaker into the second-largest producer, after Goodyear. Edouard realizes that some of Michelin's practices must be updated, but says he remains dedicated to the business priorities and company culture for which both...
...engineer and served for two years as an officer aboard a nuclear submarine before he joined Michelin in 1989. Like all company executives, he spent six months on an assembly line before becoming part of the management team. In 1991, following Michelin's acquisition of the American tire company Uniroyal-Goodrich, he was named ceo of Michelin's U.S. unit. He returned to the company's Clermont-Ferrand headquarters in 1993 to prepare for the succession. Just months later Edouard faced media and political ire when, on the same day Michelin revealed a quarterly profit increase of 20%, it announced...