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...quality-control challenges? Toyota executives acknowledge the need to build cars and trucks faster, cheaper and better than its rivals. That's no simple task, but Toyota has always been terrific at creating a sense of internal crisis even when times are good, persuading employees that the company will crash unless everyone, from the lowliest shopworker to the CEO, helps out to improve the bottom line. "There's a deep fear of complacency in Toyota," says Jeffrey Liker, an engineering professor at the University of Michigan...
Grieving is the appropriate mode in this middling Sydney Pollack effort; the leads' backstories are littered with the corpses of loved ones. Keller has just lost his wife in a car crash, Silvia most of her family back home in Africa, under the bloody rule of the man who is about to deliver an address to the General Assembly. Add Keller's private anguish to her political rage, throw in the ticking time bomb of the international-intrigue plot, and there's enough narrative for three fine films...
With the new film “Crash,” in limited release on May 6, the two finally put their less-than-stellar pasts behind them, respectively offering some of their best work to date. Dillon’s smarmy, understated performance in “Crash,” as part of an ensemble cast also featuring Brendan Fraser, Sandra Bullock, and Don Cheadle, is a stirring reminder of the nuanced actor who impressed in such films as “Rumble Fish” and “Drugstore Cowboy.” Serving double duty...
...dollar about to collapse? No consensus exists among experts. Trade Official Bale does not anticipate a crash, but Rimmer de Vries, chief international economist of New York's Morgan Guaranty Trust, is less sanguine. Says he: "If there is loose monetary policy and no budget compromise, confidence in the dollar would be destroyed." Other economists envision a slower but inexorable fall. Stephen Marris, a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics, warns of a deep decline in the dollar's value extending over two to four years. As a sign that the dollar's slide will probably not turn...
...conducting its long and meticulous search, Fisher's salvaging team used the most advanced underwater detection machinery available. Side-scanning sonar, similar to the type used in finding the black boxes of the Air-India crash, provided a detailed chart of the ocean floor. A high-speed magnetometer located the ferrous metals commonly found in old cannons, muskets and ship fittings. The crew also employed a method that Fisher devised for scouring the ocean bottom: huge pipes are placed at a salvage ship's stern near the propellers, which drive jets of water through the cylinders, helping to uncover buried...