Word: touchings
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...creating a management team for his new vision, Ford deliberately chose executives who have either come from other companies or spent time at divisions overseas, where they developed fresh perspectives. Fields, a baby-faced former sales and marketing guy with a smooth, confident touch, returned to Detroit in September after 10 years overseas, where he turned around Mazda in a difficult Japanese environment and then took on troubles at Ford in Europe, which is now profitable. "[Ford] has given me and my management team [the leeway] to turn the ship around," says Fields. "But he expects us to deliver...
...kids, the struggle to balance work and family, how to plan vacations with four children's conflicting school schedules and the exhausting demands of Saturdays, running from basketball games to other activities from dawn until dusk. "It's insane, isn't it?" he says. But despite Ford's light touch, there is a sense of destiny in the air these days at his company. "This is a great American story, and the last chapter has not yet been written," says Steven Hamp, Ford's brother-in-law and chief of staff. "The outcome matters not just to our company...
...were inspired after observing their celeb pals frantically trying to fix their faces before leaving nightspots so as not to be caught looking less than perfect by paparazzi. For the rest of us who don't have this flashbulb problem, the gloss gadget is ideal for after-dark touch-ups and finding keys at the bottom of your handbag. "It's glamour utility," says Nina. Each gloss - there are five Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments...
...image of the military as the last refuge of the poor has gotten a lot of play since the start of the Iraq war. It’s a myth that serves both sides of the debate. Conservatives can use it to paint anti-warriors as out of touch elitists too pampered to do the kind of ass-kicking the American people deserve. If military equals poor, then anti-war equals wealthy and snobbish.But the soldiers-are-poor image also serves the left. When Congressman Charles Rangel introduced a bill to reintroduce the draft, it was widely seen...
...scientific nor humanitarian side of the public health crisis that faces our world today.AIDS is the problem that everyone knows exists but no one knows how to solve. Perhaps this is because AIDS is a global issue that defies categorization: it has become so much a social issue that touches development, poverty, and public health, though it is still nothing but a virus. It is at its simplest a microscopic retrovirus and at its most complex an indicator of societal patterns ranging from prostitution to the unequal distribution of wealth and pharmaceuticals.What was once ignorantly considered solely a gay disease...