For publishers, meanwhile, it promises streamlined production and much-needed scale for selling to advertisers.

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Dell made the decision to replace Rollins as he saw a newly energized HP--with streamlined production, cool new offerings in TVs, cameras and handhelds, and 110, 000 retail outlets--slash prices and snatch away Dell's lead.

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First there was Trinidad and Tobago, then Mexico and more recently, he streamlined a steel plant in Kazakhstan which doubled its production in only five years.

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