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...Tell anyone who doesn't live in Japan that the country has productivity problems and you're likely to be met with disbelief, if not laughter. Japan Inc., inefficient? Companies like Sony, Toshiba and Toyota have made the country famous as the place where they always make things better, cheaper, smarter. Production techniques invented here?Just In Time Manufacturing, Total Quality Management, Continuous Improvement?have been imitated from Seoul to S?o Paulo. Certainly, Japan's leading export manufacturers deserve this reputation. According to that report by McKinsey, Japanese export industries like automobiles, electronics and computer hardware are, indeed, 20% more...
...Walmart Stores Inc. achieved its biggest single-day sales figure ever, earning $1.43 billion in sales, compared to last year’s 1.25 billion. Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s, along with Dillard’s and Nordstrom, Inc. also reported exceeding their sales expectations...
...Rotterdam Harbor Authority's chief inspector, Henk ten Hoope, agrees. In a September 1999 inspection, he found "nothing wrong with the ship's structure," he says. "As far as we were concerned, it was perfectly seaworthy." Shipping sources in Athens - base of the Prestige's registered owners, Mare Shipping Inc., and manager, Universe Maritime Ltd. - call the vessel "a good ship," and add that Captain Apostoulos Mangouras is experienced and had a clean record. (He has been detained in Spain for alleged environmental offenses and failure to cooperate with coastal authorities in a timely fashion.) So why did the Prestige...
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...years after his first book, "Flood!," appeared and won an American Book Award, Drooker has released a kind of follow-up, "Blood Song" (Harcourt, Inc.; 300 pp.; $20). (A new edition of "Flood!" is being concurrently released by Dark Horse Comics.) Both "Flood!" and "Blood Song" continue Masereel's idea of a silent journey. But where "Flood!" took place exclusively in the dehumanizing world of a biblically punished New York, "Blood Song," moves from a pastoral to a modern metropolis, exploring the role of the individual in nature and society...