In the wake of Jobs untimely death the outpouring of grief reached proportions that seem difficult to explain in normal times (it was the lead story eveninplaces as far afield as India).
In fact, as the companies became larger and larger the executives of these mega-firms tacitly or explicitly encouraged even more complexity by allowing managers infar flung places to operate in their own ways, with their own processes.
There is no ban on gun ownership in Chicago or Illinois and even if there were, it is hardly difficult to go too far to get guns inplaces where they are freely available.
Toyota covered its bets with a wide variety of options for cab configurations and bed lengths and even went so far as to build a plant in San Antonio, Texas, of all places, to assemble Tundra.
U.S. forces have remained inplaces such as Germany and South Korea for generations, even when the number of American lives at risk was far greater than the losses incurred in Afghanistan.