But Motsepe's lean operating style--not to mention the sweet financing deal--made the shafts profitable in the first year, though the initial months were nerve-racking as gold continued to fall.

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While featuring the same keyboard arrangement and operating style made popular by previous ClassPad calculators, the fx-CP400 is also fitted with keys that slope down from bottom to top, which helps prevent input errors when pressing vertically arranged keys.

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But Sorkin maintains that Ripplewood has not been a Bain-style manager, operating with the primary objective of scoring profits.

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Now, next time you sync your iPod you'll get the latest posts (assuming you set up iTunes to sync the playlist you chose) in audio format, as read in the ever-engaging style of the operating system voices, ready to take with you on the go.

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Google ( GOOG - news - people ) about incorporating Google's Android operating system into a slate or tablet-style computer later this year.

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The station, still owned by Edmund's Sunbeam Television and operating as a Fox affiliate, pioneered the "if it bleeds, it leads" style of television journalism by focusing on crime and consumer interest stories.

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So too are GE-style exhaustive interrogations, led by Bulriss, of each division chief's annual operating plan.

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By the Sixties, old-style movie making was dead, as were the studios that would not adapt and shed operating costs fast enough.

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