Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lenders don't feel any better knowing they have mainly themselves to blame for this fix. Through much of the '80s they were tripping over one another to offer generous terms for even the unlikeliest projects. "In the madness of that decade, many hotels were overfinanced and overleveraged," says Bruce Batlin, a partner with the consulting firm Pannell Kerr Forster. "A lot of hotels are in trouble because of that...
...stem the onslaught of Japan's strongest competitors? That depends on how well the Big Three learn the lessons of lean and efficient manufacturing that those competitors have to teach. Among them: treating workers like people rather than parts and catching defects before they occur rather than trying to fix them afterward...
...proposal to reform Harvard's calendar is a step in the right direction. But the Council recommendation--which would condense winter and spring exam periods by two days and facilitate a slightly longer intersession and a slightly earlier summer dismissal--does not go far enough. If we want to fix the flaws of the archaic calendar, we should do it right. Here...
...plant operator to work on 52 of the country's 55 plants at a moment's notice. By contrast, each of the 112 U.S. nuclear plants, which produce 21% of the nation's electricity, was custom built at its site. So when something goes wrong, a specialist has to fix it, causing delays that tend to make U.S. plant shutdowns longer than in France...
Fracases like this only underscore the fact that if dance music is the hottest commodity on the charts right now, it still lacks cachet. The wasp- waisted Zelma Williams handles the majority of female vocals on the record, yet it's a struggle to fix her with any strong identity. She might as well be a digital sample dressed in an evening gown. If producers are the stars, then they better have star quality. Or develop it. Some things just can't be made in a factory...