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...Part of that efficiency is what Edward Miller, a Honda spokesman in Alabama, calls a modern "harmonious flow" - having nearby vendors supply parts, and workers assemble them, as they're needed rather than stockpiling too much inventory or flooding the market with, say, gas-guzzlers no one wants to buy anymore. "Southern communities understand you can't tie organizations down with restrictions," says manufacturing management expert David Miller of the Alabama Productivity Center. "Successful auto companies in the South provide all the positives you'd find in a union shop...
...following morning, the grafting of that harvested tissue began. Just two hours and 40 minutes later, the surgeons saw the key sign of their success: the transplanted face began turning a healthy pink, indicating that blood flow had been restored...
...party, Business School spokesman Brian Kenny repeatedly refused to cite specific examples of belt-tightening measures. “This isn’t a competition between schools to see who can cut back the most,” Kenny said.—Christian B. Flow, Athena Y. Jiang, and Nini S. Moorhead contributed to the reporting of this story.—Staff writer June Q. Wu can be reached at junewu@fas.harvard.edu...
...aide before heading up the Department of Environmental Regulation in Florida. Her greatest achievement: settling a lawsuit the government had brought against Florida for environmental damage done to Everglades National Park and launching the largest ecological restoration project ever attempted in the U.S., to purify and restore the natural flow of water to the Everglades...
...cash," says Christoph Hensch, a Swiss national and former banker living in Christchurch, New Zealand. Rather, it offers a way "for people to share and redeem value they have in the community." He says the currencies are most useful in geographical areas or social sectors where money doesn't flow sufficiently, citing, for example, New Zealand's Golden Bay, which is so remote that it sometimes nearly functions as its own economy...