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...It’s not pretty, but it’s progress,” says Vice President Dick Cheney, taking a break from one of a seemingly endless series of National Security Council meetings in the aftermath of 9/11...
...watched Kennedy during his grueling, endless Inauguration Day, both on and off the public stage. He never faltered. At midnight, he stood in that snow-laden landscape in front of the White House, tugged a couple of times on an expiring cigar, then literally skipped up the portico stairs and into the White House. In June 1961 Kennedy returned from a U.S.-Soviet summit in Vienna on crutches and was lifted onto Air Force One by a cherrypicker, the most graphic public display of his physical problems. But two nights later, he was in Palm Beach sipping daiquiris while Frank...
...insulated from competition, most businesses are too small to achieve economies of scale, are poorly managed, and use antiquated equipment and business models?all of which hurt productivity and increase prices. Take food processing: Without state-of-the-art market research and sales-tracking capabilities, food companies churn out endless variations of new products that no one winds up buying. McKinsey cites an example of one Japanese chocolate maker whose 101 products generated sales of $556 million in 1998. Compare that to U.S.-based Hershey, which generated $4.4 billion in sales with just 78 products. Or take health care...
...cautioned the TF: we’ll take points off if you forget to mention W and Z. And so when the midterm came along I dutifully spit out W-Z, having still very little idea what any of them mean. The only word that adequately characterizes this endless pursuit—making sure we have done the reading or shown up for lecture, or at the very least have found a study group that did—is “pettiness.” Professors leave little room for rumination—regurgitation becomes the order...
...cautioned the TF: we’ll take points off if you forget to mention W and Z. And so when the midterm came along I dutifully spit out W-Z, having still very little idea what any of them mean. The only word that adequately characterizes this endless pursuit—making sure we have done the reading or shown up for lecture, or at the very least have found a study group that did—is “pettiness.” Professors leave little room for rumination—regurgitation becomes the order...