Word: flaws
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...well as interior assembly--and they rotate jobs frequently. They're less susceptible to boredom and repetitive-stress injuries. They're also trained to do preventive maintenance. At Toyota plants, every assembly-line worker has the authority to stop the line if he or she spots, say, a flaw in a windshield. More important, workers are encouraged by management...
...enemy programmed to hate and fear is not the adversary the U.S. wants to face across the bargaining table. But assuming that Kim is driven primarily by a desire to stay in power, he might realize his nuclear plan has a fundamental flaw. Using or threatening to use the bomb will almost certainly spell the end of his regime, no matter the cost. Logic should be telling him that the only sure way he can survive is by giving up his nukes, in return getting much-needed aid and living to be obnoxious another...
...Blackboard has been less than reassuring. They secured a restraining order to stop the two hackers from sharing their findings and issued a statement criticizing them for illegally dismantling a Blackboard device in the process of discovering the problem. The statement also downplays the significance of the security flaw, saying that it is only by physically tampering with its devices that hackers can abuse the system...
...some point some people weren’t rowing together,” junior Alex Binkley said. “No crew team can afford to not row together. Nobody gave up, there was simply a technical flaw in the boat...
...plan had a flaw: I had forgotten about the war. Not the war itself, of course, but what ABC calls the WAR with IRAQ: war in its reality television incarnation. Because my recent television viewing has been restricted to such special events as President George W. Bush’s State of the Union address and the Joe Millionaire finale, the extent to which war had permeated regularly scheduled programming shocked me. I watched, supine, as a series of wildly divergent film clips unrolled on the television screen: in downtown Manhattan, hundreds of protesters were flopping onto the pavement...