Word: turnarounds
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...none has time to doodle: she has projects underway in Germany, Spain, Italy, the United States, Abu Dhabi, Singapore ... Surrounded by young men in T shirts - and after chiding a secretary about where the hell are her airline tickets for Paris the next day - Hadid is philosophical about the turnaround in the fortunes of her designs, which were flowing and flamboyant decades before Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum became the icon of Bilbao in Spain. "It took a long time for people to understand that what I do is not in the realm of the impossible, but the realm...
...safe-haven” in 1996 (at which point they were ousted by Hussein’s tanks). If Clinton has now become a fierce proponent of “trying to strengthen” the Iraqi opposition, as he intimated last week, it is a significant turnaround from the policies he followed during his tenure in the White House...
...Stoiber, premier of the state of Bavaria, who had made a chief issue of the country's economic woes. Schroder has closed the gap in the past month and last week even edged past Stoiber for the first time in the eight-month campaign. One reason for Schroder's turnaround is his smooth performance as a crisis manager. When eastern Germany was inundated by heavy flooding last month, Schroder put together a $7 billion reconstruction plan and deferred a planned tax cut 12 months to pay for it. Even more important, say political analysts, were Schroder's strong statements opposing...
...officials are trying to ease the adversarial relationship lest their planned turnaround be torpedoed by strikes and other industrial actions. The task has fallen to Lawrence Zahner, 48, an affable, fast-talking Baltimore native who in the early 1970s painted cars at a GM plant at night to help pay his way through college. As GM's vice president for manufacturing in Korea, Zahner has spent his first year on the job trying to use a mix of down-home American good humor and hard bargaining to get the workers' union on board. "My point to them is that...
...South Koreans traditionally feel toward outsiders involved in their industrial sector. Although the country has opened up to more foreign investment and brands since the 1997 Asian economic crisis, the auto business has remained devoutly nationalistic?only 1% of the cars sold each year are foreign makes. A GM turnaround could change that, in the same way that Renault's transformation of Nissan showed Japan that foreign partnerships can work...