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Galluccio said he is beginning to lay the groundwork for a campaign that will focus on the same “bread and butter” issues that have always been his major campaign issues—improving public education, increasing affordable housing and expanding access to health care...
...that GM solves its problems not just by exhorting the bean counters to keep cutting costs and endlessly haggling with the unions but also by taking big risks to create exciting, popular products that bring in new revenues. Wagoner and chairman John F. Smith Jr. have carefully laid the groundwork for the kind of product-driven revolution Lutz has in mind. But he has to move fast, for the clock is ticking on his three-year contract...
...have been very active, indeed, in laying the groundwork for this five-year initiative,” Noam says. “It’s an exciting time in this field and it is great that Harvard is taking a leadership role...
...scrupulous analysis of racial profiling's history, uses and ultimate failure as a measure for crime prevention takes on even deeper meaning following September 11...FORECAST: The focus of profiling debates has shifted from blacks and Hispanics to Arab and American Muslims. This book lays some of the groundwork for post-September 11 books on profiling that are sure to come, and is rock solid on specifics that remain disturbing; expect strong sales...
...Over the past two decades, he has had a hand in some of the most murderous terrorist attacks in the world. In 1995 his suicide bombers destroyed the Egyptian embassy in Pakistan, where 15 died and 60 more were injured. All the while, al-Zawahiri was laying the groundwork for the East African terrorist operation that would drive truck bombs into the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, killing 224 people and injuring thousands more...