One Out, All Out
MURPHY, you will recall, taught us that if something can go wrong, it will. (A subset of his law provides that Murphy was an opti- mist.) Just In Time management is especial- ly......
Spot The Difference
THE state pension is one of the Treasury's proudest achievements. It may not buy much, so the mandarins say, but it buys as much as it used to, and just think what it has saved.......
Oil.com
FROM Wall Street, James Grant sends me his Interest Rate Observer, garnished with a pretty drawing of an all-American family at home. The daughter (who looks like a cross......
A Lot Of It About
I AM alarmed to think that the dear old Stock Exchange has contracted Natwestitis. As we have seen, this disease can be fatal. In the incubatory stage, the patient experi- ences......
City And Suburban
When Just In Time meets Murphy's Law, the machinery coughs and expires CHRISTOPHER FILDES O ne way to manage a business is Just Not In Time. We can all think of examples. Under......
Go-faster Stripes
MY railway correspondent, I.K. Gricer, dives for my copy of Tom Bower's Branson. Yes, he says, the Eurostar story has been going round the inner circle. Virgin was part of the......
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