Hints and tips:
...They opened a window into an industry plagued by an Achilles heel it calls “leakage” — where goods slip through the fingers of formal recyclers into the hands of other, potentially questionable, actors....
...However, the company’s Achilles heel is that it does not currently offer a battery-only electric vehicle....
...Everything, according to ultra-runner Scott Jurek....
...Fashion has been the Achilles heel for the British department store for more than a decade, with successive chief executives unable to revive its prospects....
...Partiality is the heel in this Achilles film; though to this Achilles film’s credit, it also outruns, as storytelling, the tortoise forebodings we might have had about a true-life plot so cerebral and cyber-centric...
...Simon handles property while Scott looks after the other interests. But he remains chairman and “chief pot and bottle washer”....
...Scott’s, 20 Mount Street (020-7495 7309; www.scotts-restaurant.com). Turnbull & Asser, 71-72 Jermyn Street (020-7808 3000; www.turnbullandasser.co.uk)....
...Despite this, some companies have a limited knowledge of their supply chains, says Adrian Chamberlain, CEO of supply chain management group Achilles....
...“The Achilles heel is the external account,” the official says....
...festering transvestite masquerading as an amputee; and Helen, the epitome of female beauty, is played by a man in a frizzy auburn wig (Scott Handy)....
...Lawyers say that could be the Achilles heel of the case against the London-based bank....
...Expected to leave as soon as Monday are Ina Drew, who heads the chief investment office; Achilles Macris, who led the London-based trading team; and trader Javier Martin-Artajo....
...The replication of the original wallpaper in the Sir George Gilbert Scott Suite alone cost £47,000....
...The disbandment, to paraphrase Gil Scott-Heron, will not be televised. “Undercover Fluff” might be a better name for this series....
...Gary Styles, Hometrack: The UK’s Achilles heel is the absence of steady balanced economic growth....
...Andrew Scott, London Business School Fiscal consolidation is a long haul and needs to be state contingent rather than tied to numerical targets for specific dates....
...(Pioneers who named their settlements with more weary resignation - Tombstone, Scuffletown, Lost Springs and Achilles - seemed to have more insight into their fates.)...
...(Pioneers who named their settlements with more weary resignation – Tombstone, Scuffletown, Lost Springs and Achilles – seemed to have more insight into their fates.)...
...Ultimately, however, they see Apple’s market dominance and its use of proprietary technology in its players as the company’s Achilles heel....
...It is in all essentials our own Trojan war, in which Achilles is played by William and Hector, the doomed hero, by Harold....
...It is abundantly clear from the way Microsoft is publicising its product that it views cost as RIM’s Achilles heel....
...Scott Peck At the beginning of my career, this book increased my awareness of the issues of psychological and spiritual development in business life....
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