Word: conveyor
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Additionally, Harvard has implemented a new policy allowing for only two to four months of therapy, which students say amounts to no more than a conveyor belt of treatment aimed at making the best use of a limited number of therapists...
...generous about sharing his methods. He begins by obtaining a hoagie roll, and then toasting it using an actual toaster oven rather than the toasting conveyer. “Point of fact,” he explains, “this doesn’t work in the conveyor because the bun gets caught...
...along a private road, past the truck scales and the raw-coal stockpile, invisible from the highway, is the Shade Creek processing plant of PBS Coals Inc. There freshly mined coal is washed, the sulfur, rock, ash and other impurities removed and the cleaned coal carried by an overhead conveyor belt across the dusty road. It goes into a building on the other side that is operated by a second company, Central City Synfuels. Another belt comes out of that building--off limits to the public--carrying what looks a lot like the same coal back across the road...
...other hand, DHL Worldwide Express, which handles 160 million packages a year, plans to go global soon with RFID tracking. Earlier this year DHL's RFID program manager Trevor Peirce stood next to a conveyor belt at its Helsinki gateway, watching computerized RFID scanners identify packages inside passing cargo containers at the rate of 300 items per second. "This is amazing technology when you see it working, and it's all fine-tuned," says Peirce. For customers, the payoff is later posting times and earlier deliveries, says the company's CIO, Steve Bandrowczak. "RFID clearly can help customers by reducing...
...list are still full of last big things I never got around to--The Hulk, Friendster, hot yoga (or, for that matter, cold yoga)--and I'm paid to keep up with this stuff. For the average person with an actual productive job, keeping up with this conveyor belt of novelty must seem like grueling, poorly paid work...