Word: chaotically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Barnes didn't hesitate. He jetted from New York City to Paris on Tuesday, then traveled through the Ivory Coast and Mali to Guinea, where he caught a Nigerian helicopter into Freetown on Saturday morning. Battle-hardened though he is, Barnes found the scene harrowing. "The situation is totally chaotic," he says. "Much of the city is under the control of 15- and 16-year-old kids who will shoot at anything." Barnes filed his story from Freetown on a borrowed satellite phone from under the cover of a palm tree as a muggy quiet settled over the city...
...Wright, an expert in admissions and financial aid and now a vice president at Smith College, goes further, calling the situation "chaotic...
...saint; Dad, Peter, is a boob; the kids are mutants (baby Stewie, for instance, is an evil genius plotting world domination); and the voice of reason is Brian, the family's talking dog. The early plots are standard-issue situation comedy (Dad gets laid off, Mom mounts a chaotic production of The King and I), but in the pilot script, at least, MacFarlane's pell-mell wit recalls The Simpsons' fevered early-'90s creative peak. Punch lines spill out furiously as the show spirals into multilayered flashbacks and inventive fantasies (when Peter wonders whether to lie to his wife...
...firm is planning to start a "recovery fund" targeted chiefly at Asia. Goldman's Asia president, Philip Murphy, indicates a major target will be consumer goods, which many others also consider an attractive field for U.S. investment. One reason is that some Asian companies are reorganizing their countries' chaotic distribution systems, replacing mom-and-pop stores with modern networks of warehouses and big retail outlets, but need outside cash to finish...
Alfred Sloan literally wrote the book on managing large organizations--My Years with General Motors. No large company is untouched by his concept of decentralized management. He came into a GM that was cash short, chaotic and nearly bankrupt--Ford had a 60% market share--and brought discipline to a sprawling company, clearly defining the issues of planning, strategy and organization. He mastered the concept of market segmentation--Chevrolets for Everyman, Cadillacs for the wealthy--to better target GM's sales and avoid internal competition, a strategy that left Ford behind. Sloan also understood what managers today call "consumer insight...