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Called Plastics Again, the $4 million venture in Leominster, Mass., will clean up and break down used hamburger containers, insulated cups and cafeteria trays. The foam will be turned into plastic resin that can be formed into such new items as flowerpots, wall insulation and coat hangers. In its first year the plant is expected to recycle about 3 million lbs. of foam, or 8% of the state's annual consumption...
...cost production system in GM's Fremont factory. GM is represented by 17 management-level employees at NUMMI, while Toyota has 36, including the president and executive vice president. One of the first things the Japanese did was eliminate executive perks such as reserved parking places and a separate cafeteria. Then they turned the top-down style of American management -- the tradition of the industrial engineer as the first and last word on how a car is made -- on its head. As NUMMI president Kan Higashi says, "The person who does the job knows it best...
...Orange County, Calif., division of Unisys, for example, speak everything from Korean to Japanese to Spanish. Their productivity improved significantly, Unisys managers say, when the company began offering ten-week courses in reading, writing and speaking English. Classes, which number 15 students at most, meet in the company cafeteria, whose wraparound picture windows look out on the Santa Ana Mountains. "Before I took the class I couldn't stand up and talk in our Thursday staff meetings," says Elvia Adame, 31, who came to Southern California from Mexico City eight years ago. "Now I participate in all the meetings...
Organizers said students have been enthusiastic about the new use of the cafeteria that serves as a dining hall for Dudley residents...
...proposed student center would, at the minimum, house the offices of student groups and a dining hall for freshman to replace the Union. Others have suggested that the University go further and provide a cafeteria, some pinball machines, a pub with a band, a pizza parlor and, well, you get the idea...