Barra's mission is to make the hard product decisions early--and stick with them--so that GM can speed the transition to "global architectures": meaning the use of single sets of components for vehicles worldwide to drive up GM's economies of scale.

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It is a fast-paced sport, requiring finely tuned eye-hand-stick-puck co-ordination, executed at high speed, by some of the fittest athletes in sport.

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The answer to that, of course, is that we are all surrounded by limits and guidelines - like motorway speed limits - but we don't always stick to them.

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'' Two seconds later, just before we would have stalled and started a death spiral to earth, the jet's control stick moved forward, and the airplane began to pick up speed, averting the stall.

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If call reliability is paramount, stick with Verizon, and if you want to use a lot of data but don't care about speed, go with Sprint.

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