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...Skunk Works on the third floor of the Piquette Avenue plant, Ford and his engineers experiment with lighter-weight materials that allow the company to mass-produce cars...
...Motor City moving and shaking, but not the hosts of the black-tie charity ball, William Clay Ford Jr. and his wife Lisa. In fact, the 48-year-old CEO of Ford Motor Co. is getting teased by his brother-in-law about his ineptitude on the dance floor. Turning to a reporter, Bill owns up to it. "You don't want to see that," the Ford scion says with a laugh. But he gets serious when the topic turns to his day job and what lies just around the corner for his employees: a sweeping restructuring that will bring...
...staging ground for Ford's innovation revolution is the top-secret Piquette Project. Unknown by all but the very top-level Ford executives, the program is aimed at nothing short of reinventing Detroit. It's named after the third-floor Piquette plant skunk works where Henry Ford and a group of engineers first developed the idea of the assembly line and experimented with lighter materials to create a car that could be mass-produced. The specific goals and the deadlines of the Piquette project are secret. But company officials say it harks back to Henry Ford's innovative experiments with...
...yearbook was first published under the name Harvard Yearbook in 1950. After that, the yearbook was bounced around from basement to basement, finally settling on the second floor of 2 Brattle Square in the 1980s, when a trust established by alums bought the entire floor...
...bedrock-shaking noise of the construction in the former parking lot between Dunster and Leverett Houses, the project team offered residents of the three East River Houses free Pinocchio’s pizza on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of last week. We tried lining our windows and floors with the pies before concluding that: 1) pizza is not a good sound insulator; and 2) we were meant to eat it. The project team may want to invest in a little more image research. Though to them, pizza is an oily olive branch, it doesn’t represent the same...