Most of her male colleagues collected their salaries and did nothing (she recalled that headquarters "reeked of negligence and stale tobacco smoke and slacking"), but the work captivated Dr. Baker.
Four years later Faraci was recalled to headquarters as chief financial officer.
But he said Toyota was unique among automobile companies in leaving decisions on recalls to its headquarters in Japan.
"They had a fantastic mess hall," former Specialist Fifth Class Jay A. Roberts, who worked in the public-information office, near headquarters, recalled.
Jordan Dale, the student body president, who went with her to Carrier's headquarters, recalled how hard it was confronting one of the city's most powerful men.
Shortly afterwards, Baer was transferred to Khartoum, Sudan, and then, after only four months, recalled to CIA headquarters in the US because Libya was apparently targeting him for assassination.
Shaun Liu, an I.B.M. consultant to Huawei who had just started working out of the company's Shenzhen headquarters, recalled how Mr. Ren often asked his employees to be prepared for the crisis.
"Back when this all started, John took all of the evidence from the first trials and wrote a story called 'House of Screams,' about the screaming that was coming out of the interrogation room of Area 2 headquarters," recalled G. Flint Taylor, a lawyer who represented victims of the police tactics.
Zhang Jindong, chairman of Suning Appliance, China's number two retailer of electrical goods, recalls opening a headquarters store for his fledgling chain in the eastern city of Nanjing in 1999.
On August 26 , 1942he was recalled to USAAF Headquarters to head the planning team for AWPD 42, a revision of the air strategy plan in light of ongoing crises in the war, completing it in 11 days.
