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Many of the victims waited in cardboard boxes or tents on the street for medical treatment...

Author: By Tina Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Team Aids Quake Victims | 1/16/2004 | See Source »

...skilled labor. B. Braun Medical, a medical-equipment maker in the valley, is a good example. The $750 million company makes intravenous tubing, anesthesia kits and other devices. On a tour of the company's production facilities in Allentown, CEO Caroll Neubauer proudly displays a large metal chamber where cardboard boxes packed with finished goods are sterilized. "This used to be outsourced," Neubauer says with a smile. "We brought it back in." By improving the machines and training its staff to run them, the company has reduced its error rate to the point that its sterilization process is a competitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Made In The U.S.A.: What Can America Make? | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

...seasonal (sales spike during back-to-school and tax times), Nicolin explains, "it's very difficult to be based in China. It means big commitments. You cannot respond to fluctuations." And Esselte has not ignored the need to innovate--even in the market for what Nicolin jokingly calls "bent cardboard." Esselte is aggressively seeking patents on new products, and it has done five times as much market research this year as in the past five years combined. "That's how you avoid being marginalized," Nicolin says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Made In The U.S.A.: What Can America Make? | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

...joins in their conversations, delivering her lines during carefully scripted silences. Such moments reveal how meticulously planned the seemingly spontaneous performances really are. Greenwood’s expert execution implies an exacting level of detail in editing, audiovisual synchronization and scripting, as animation, bits of television commercials, and cardboard cutouts all appear throughout the videos...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Virtual Band Fills Cabot Theatre | 12/12/2003 | See Source »

...wall of the entrance to Byrd’s campaign headquarters—that is, his large pad in DeWolfe—hangs a flattened cardboard box mapping out the week’s strategy meetings in Sharpie marker...

Author: By Elena Sorokin and Nicole B. Urken, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Byrd-Mani Work the Grassroots | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

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