Word: codas
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...works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror, and fear. The first plane is just to get our attention. Then, once we are transfixed, the second plane comes and repeats the theme until the blinding coda of smoke and debris crumbles on top of the rescue workers who have gone in to try to save anyone who survived the opening movements. And we watch, speechless, as the sirens, like some awful choir, hour after hour let you know that it is not over yet, wait, there...
...works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror, and fear. The first plane is just to get our attention. Then, once we are transfixed, the second plane comes and repeats the theme until the blinding coda of smoke and debris crumbles on top of the rescue workers who have gone in to try to save anyone who survived the opening movements. And we watch, speechless, as the sirens, like some awful choir, hour after hour let you know that it is not over yet, wait, there...
...architect I.M. Pei among his clients. He says the crisis in gondola making is only part of a larger problem. "There are other kinds of boats that people don't even know how to make anymore," he says, referring to craft like the peata and the batea con la coda di gambero (boat with the shrimp's tail), both once used for transporting goods. "Those who knew how to make them closed down, and no one has replaced them...
...decrepit transportation infrastructure, the Brazilian machinery industry would simply "collapse" if forced to compete with North American firms, a Brazilian industry official says. The country's chemical industry says it would have to invest an extra $5 billion a year to avoid a similar fate, while Gianni Coda, director of Fiat Latin America, frets that "the entire Brazilian automotive sector will lose...
...headquarters shift is Condit's dramatic coda to a corporate overhaul designed to take Boeing into businesses that are growing faster on average than aircraft manufacturing, which is subject to severe cycles. In the past five years, Boeing (2000 sales: $51.3 billion) has purchased McDonnell Douglas (F-15s) and the satellite division of Hughes Electronics and Rockwell International's space and defense units. These far-flung companies--Rockwell and Hughes are in California, MDD in St. Louis, Mo.--will compete for capital and talent with the eponymous aircraft division. "This is about nimbleness and flexibility. It's about being organized...