We succeed or fail largely before we ever get to the front-line associate.

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The design of an automobile assembly line came from a Henry Ford associate who had visited a Chicago slaughterhouse.

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Looking back, Pynchon says she knew what she was saying was over the line and would have handled it differently had the associate called her on it.

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The leading Associate countries now play a year-round schedule, with only Kenya currently boasting a contracted line-up.

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