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Even with modest expectations, the opening round of multilateral talks on North Korea's nuclear-weapons plans in Beijing last week was less than successful. Diplomats from the U.S., North Korea, China, Russia, South Korea and Japan left the six-sided bargaining table--custom-built for the talks--with no real progress...
...instance," says Curtis, "one city has six giant pumps, and they're all in one building. If you crashed an airplane into that building or blew it up, it would cause half a million people to lose their water supply almost instantly." Pumps of this size must be custom-built and can take as long as 18 months to replace...
...chemical engineer at a maquiladora, where he mapped computer formulas for face creams. Tijuana Sessions is selling well, and he has lucrative gigs scheduled this summer in Los Angeles, London and Barcelona. His home, in Tijuana's Las Playas neighborhood, has an ocean view, cathedral ceilings and a custom-built studio, where he shows a visitor his collection of 40 keyboards. As midnight approaches, the visitor looks at his watch and makes a gesture that says it's time to go. "Why are you going?" he screams over the music. "Everything you need is here...
Dell Computer Corp. has followed a particularly effective mix of policies. It originally prospered largely by cutting out the middleman and selling custom-built products directly to buyers. That strategy was probably old in the agora of ancient Athens, but it was new to the computer industry in 1983, when Michael Dell started selling hand-built PCs out of his dormitory room at the University of Texas. As it grew into a giant, Dell Computer insisted on keeping only a six-day inventory, vs. a six- to eight-week supply for most of its competitors. That not only lowered costs...
...know, I know. Rough life. But Meghan is actually one of the lucky ones. And I'm not talking about her Harvard education. I'm not even talking about her swank office, complete with a brand-new fridge and walls that were custom-built according to her specifications. Meghan is lucky because she's thinking about quitting, after only a week. See, she hates her boss...