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Feeling the need for a "clean-sheet," the Obama administration gave GM's CEO the pink slip today.
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Feeling the need for a "clean-sheet," the Obama administration gave GM's CEO the pink slip today.
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Given its competitive shortcomings, a clean-sheet design would seem to be in order.
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India lost 0-4, but the team at least kept a clean-sheet in the second-half.
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It may, at this point, take a clean-sheet approach to many components to get out from under the debris - with a commensurate increase in the 'gap'.
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By comparison, we don't know how this clean-sheet design will hold up.
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Back in the US, the bankruptcy has had all of the elements of the obvious clean-sheet restructuring that outsiders like Jerry York have been pushing for years.
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There is little scope for innovative, clean-sheet thinking, and even when that occurs, there is little ability to bend the vast bulk of the military and national machinery to the emerging requirements.
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Instead, a clean-sheet look at how the GUI of a browser should work, maximising screen real-estate.
The beast has awoken; or, The beginning of Web 2.0 | FactoryCity 2006
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It's not perfect -- a high rear window impairs rear visibility, GM needs to fix the transmission programming, the hefty weight doesn't help real-world fuel economy, and who knows if this clean-sheet design will be reliable -- but the design hits so many bases so well.
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