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...amicable waves as we work our way past folks preparing gallons of tuna salad and corn salad in vats that look like enormous Tupperware. Yards of vegetables are lined up neatly on twenty-feet steel counters, ready to become salad fixings. King-Kong-sized industrial mixers and pumping devices churn away in the background. This ain’t your house kitchen—it’s the meat and bones of HUDS...
...American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which the Labor Department estimates was responsible for the loss of more than 500,000 U.S. jobs between 1994 and 2002. That's a significant number but modest in comparison with the millions of jobs that are created and lost annually in the constant churn of the U.S. economy. Indeed, much of the job loss during the recent U.S. recession was cyclical in nature. But in recent years, one noteworthy segment of the economy began suffering from the permanent change of outsourcing (or offshoring), particularly the movement of service-industry, technology-oriented jobs to overseas...
Kolarik is what those in the trade call a “gamer.” When his internal calendar flips from February to March, those Zamboni-sized thighs seem to churn with added ferocity, and his teammates can’t help but follow along...
...monologue. I've got to churn out about 10 minutes every single day, and I can't reuse the material. It's real pressure to find something funny every day. I mean, I'll look at a chair or a rug and think, There are people who make rugs--and that turns into something. I try to notice every single thing now and go beyond...
...company president and founder Xu Lihua risks becoming a victim of his own success. In January 2003 he opened two factories that can churn out 18 million phones a year, but since China, the world's largest mobile-phone market, already has 250 million users, growth is slowing down, and Xu knows that he needs to stay competitive. ("I have a dream that we will be as big as Motorola, IBM or Microsoft," Xu says...