Word: derailings
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...system in which businesses keep little or no overstock on hand. Instead, they place orders as needed, relying on speedy delivery to meet demand. The practice saves on storage costs and expensive markdowns, but it leaves companies at the mercy of delivery systems and the weather that can, literally, derail them. When a huge airline hub like Chicago is slowed down by inclement weather, companies feel it across the country...
...economy roared into the 21st century like a bullet train last quarter, and the vibrations it created were rattling the china on Wall Street last week. Stock prices plunged on fears of higher inflation and rising interest rates, but neither of these variables seems likely to derail the economy this year or possibly even next...
Hoping to derail Harvard's hopes of breaking the losing streak is the senior pair of forwards Ryan Moynihan and Mike Rutter...
...allow registered independents, a key factor in New Hampshire, to vote in their primaries. This, along with the votes of conservatives wary of McCain who'll abandon the right-leaning Steve Forbes and Alan Keyes in favor of the more plausible Bush, could be what it takes to derail the domino train...
...sign that the talk is already well under way, the Health Insurance Association of America, which sponsored the "Harry and Louise" ads that helped derail the Clinton plan for universal coverage in 1994, rolled out a new series of ads last week. But now the fictional couple is in favor of an insurance-industry initiative that would expand coverage of the uninsured through broadened federal programs and changes in the tax code. "It was important to get this advertisement out there at this formative stage of the election year," says HIAA president Chip Kahn, a former legislative aide to Newt...