Word: contracting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Wollman gave the example of a woman who, spurred on by the pledge she had taken, convinced the company she was working for to refuse a contract to produce weapons...
...think they'll extend his contract," Dean of the Faculty Edward Berger told Dartmouth's college newspaper. "As far as I know it will not extend further than that...
...Elizabeth Bennett marries Mr. Darcy (after all, he's kind of difficult), but Jane Austen's subsequent novels are variations on a theme, not repetitions of one. With her modern-day version of Pride and Prejudice, on the other hand, Fielding got caught in the vise of a lucrative contract and a punishing deadline, and the new book has an air of desperation. With the same diary format, complete with alcohol and cigarette logs, and the same wacky circle of friends, Bridget seems to be living her own private Groundhog Day, unable to learn from her mistakes, move forward...
...sales staff, he says, is not his American background but the team approach that he has fostered. "There are no divas here. This is not about me or [Airbus CEO] Noel Forgeard selling planes over a 2 1/2-hour lunch. We have built a team from the ground up. Salesmen, contract specialists, finance specialists, airline analysts and pilots all work together...
...most powerful gaze on you." When he gazed at Airbus, Leahy saw a stuffy organization in need of a shake-up. One of Leahy's American-style innovations, says this official, was the open office. "He literally broke down the walls between the sales guys, the contract guys and the airline analysts, and put them together in regional units. The results speak for themselves." Says another colleague: "Once John sinks his teeth into a project, he never gives...