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Besides the nine volunteers who took all 42 hours of training, all officers and security guards took a condensed eight-hour version that touched on important aspects of community policing...
...contentious eight-hour meeting that ended early yesterday morning, the City Council voted 7-2 to approve parts of a "downzoning" plan restricting certain aspects of development in Cambridge...
SNOOZE ALARM Shaving off just a couple hours of sleep a night for a week causes huge lapses in mental performance--doubling the response time to stimuli, for instance. To regain mental agility, two eight-hour nights of sleep are needed...
Spreading the day out would require splitting the eight-hour day into two shifts or paying workers for overtime. Both options would be costly, he said...
...Bodine Aluminum, Lloyd still ruefully recalls the day the new Troy plant produced the first intake manifold to be rejected--after three months and 60,000 defect-free parts. The lapse "was immediately followed by an eight-hour meeting the next day," says Lloyd, who has had to adjust to the Japanese penchant for such talkathons. "Before, if I wanted to do X, I could do X," Lloyd says, "but now we have to meet for three days. They want everyone to be on board." Bodine has cut its initial reject rate from 20% to less than 2%. Even better...