Word: floorings
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...think that perhaps she was just as embarrassed by the culture that, briefly, her generation was enamored of. “I was really more into Sly,” she would trail off. So when I returned home recently and began playing music with four-on-the-floor beats, hi-hats, vampy singers, and a fair amount of cowbelling, she was surprised to say the least. The disco I was playing is not the capital-D Disco of wedding receptions and campaign theme songs. It’s a dance music made in the early 70s by all-embracing...
...under the sight of God, Don Juan Jaime—the priest—and every scion of the local aristocracy!She couldn’t even take pleasure in the knowledge that she had The Stable Boy to herself. Even in the throes of passion on the stable floor, she sensed his mind wandering off. She had seen him watching for the post and had wondered if he were waiting for a letter from another lover. Oddly, the thought did not frighten her. She knew The Stable Boy was no longer enough for her. She was ready to move...
...entire industry. True, the technology wasn't that innovative. But Toyota had made the workforce integral to improving the system. Workers were not mere labor inputs. GM had no problem understanding the just-in-time inventory system Toyota used, but executing it required a buy-in from the shop floor so that everyone was dedicated to improvement. The Toyota system, says MacDuffie, "relies on contributions from employees. It feels vulnerable, but your willingness to be open to that vulnerability is what helps you make it work." In the 1980s and part of the '90s, the top-down culture...
...Perhaps most disturbing, the attacks revealed a lack of training, organization and equipment among the police. Bob Nicholls, a South African security consultant who was dining on the top floor of the Taj, decided to act as soon as he heard blasts because he figured there would be no hotel security or police at hand. He herded fellow guests into a secured room, but for two hours was unable to get any official information about what was happening. He and his team saved 150 people. An eyewitness who saw two gunmen walk toward Cama Hospital said that more than...
...shooting. “For the first time we were able to put together a full 40 minutes.”The story of the night was the Crimson’s sharp-shooting and its high-pace transition offense. Harvard finished the game shooting 57 percent from the floor, and its 81 points were a season-high.The Crimson pushed the tempo throughout, scoring 28 points off the Wildcats’ turnovers, and 14 on the fast break.“We do run very well,” coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said. “We have some great...