Word: construct
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...that the chopping happens close to home, which reduces outsourcing costs and keeps jobs nearby. Volvo, based in Goteborg, Sweden, has turned an old shipyard in the nearby town of Arendal into a supplier village, where nine supplier partners construct components and subsystems and line them up in the proper order before shipping them to the assembly plant. It all happens in double-quick time. "We give them eight days' notice to get the quantities together, and then we give them four hours' notice to do the sequencing," Franzen says...
...concerned about what this says about thefundraising priorities of the university," wroteUndergraduate Council President Noah Z. Seton '00in an e-mail message. "Certainly there aredonors...who care about undergraduate life at theschool, and those donors could be convinced thattheir money would be best used to construct astudent center...
...human reader were just as likely to agree as were two readers. "It's not intended to judge a person's creativity," says Darrell Laham, co-developer of the Intelligent Essay Assessor, a computer-grading system similar to E-Rater. "It's to give students a chance to construct a response instead of just pointing at a bubble...
...have several priorities this year, in addition to the numerous other issues students suggest. The first is a broad randomization review. We are working right now with Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 to construct a survey to determine what parts of student life have been neglected by randomization. Randomization seems to be one of the most contested issues on this campus--there are those who argue it has improved house life while others argue it has merely reinforced the segregation it originally sought to break down...
Real estate, however, is a risky business. "We once have had the pleasure of holding a property a little longer than we initially planned because we underestimated the time it would take for the county to construct a road through our property. We counted on that road to enhance this parcel's value, but we also made the mistake of relying on the county to construct that road on a timely basis," he says...