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...concepts of Lean and Six Sigma have been around the private sector for decades, and some parts of the Army have been using them since 2002. Lean is an outgrowth of the Toyota production system, developed in the 1930s, which focuses on increasing efficiency and reducing cycle time by eliminating waste. Six Sigma was first used on a wide scale by Motorola in the 1980s as an approach to improving quality through statistical measurements and benchmarking, Evans explains. Six Sigma entered the U.S. business lexicon in a big way in the 1990s when CEO Jack Welch embraced it at General...
...trailblazer for women's weight-lifting known as the First Lady of Iron, who in 1947 organized the first official lifting meet for women; in Santa Monica, Calif. With husband Les, Stockton--nicknamed Pudgy for her childhood baby fat--helped popularize Muscle Beach in Santa Monica in the 1930s and '40s with demonstrations that included the human pyramid and the high press, in which she stood on Les' hands while balancing a 100-lb. barbell...
...project that is expected to last until September, a team of workers is repainting and resculpting the picturesque Eliot House tower this summer in an attempt to return it to its 1930s appearance...
...troops and materiel over far-flung continental distances - initially compelled Eisenhower. But, with the force of an idea whose time had arrived, the system and its eventual designers found broader inspirations - the German Autobahn, as well as the parkways built by New Yorker Robert Moses as early as the 1930s and the futuristic highway visions of Norman Bel Geddes and French Modernist Le Corbusier...
...Always, directed by Takashi Yamazaki, is the prize-winner; it copped the Best Picture award at last year?s Japanese version of the Oscars. It?s set in Tokyo in the 1930s, and for a while made me nostalgic for a period I didn?t live through in a country I?ve never visited. But as 2hrs.13mins. of clichés piled up - the adorable orphan, the Santa Claus, the self-doubting artist, the tearful partings and tearier reunions - I decided I was better off where...