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...apparently made in a region where all the people are 4 ft. 6. It was the reduced service to secondary markets that prompted some corporations to take action. Toilet-paper and Kleenex maker Kimberly-Clark, for instance, created an airline, Midwest Express, in 1984 partly to compensate for the lack of service in Neenah, Wis. (its headquarters at the time) and to optimize the use of its owned or chartered planes. Midwest Express quickly became known for top-rated service, unsurprising coming from a company that knew a little bit about taking care of customers' tushes...
...brake when you stop.” According to Lovins, combining low mass and drag in cars with advanced propulsion not only provides a cheap way to save two thirds of the fuel needed but also yields a better performance. Lovins argued that the problem is not a lack of energy-efficient technology in transportation, but rather a dearth of knowledge on the part of companies about newer alternatives. “The innovation tree keeps pelting our heads with new fruit—what part of that don’t we get?” he said...
...countries criticized, as an example of an intervention that brought out the “damnably rivalrous” nature of international assemblies. Lewis also spoke of the recent study by Harvard researchers that found that over 300,000 South Africans died between 2000 and 2005 due to the lack of implementation of antiretroviral treatments. He said that he and Dr. Jim Y. Kim, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, were the only United Nations officials who criticized the South African government during that period. “Everyone knew that tens of thousands were dying unnecessarily...
...entities like the intelligence-gathering agencies of the military, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. “That’s a very complex enterprise to operate—my job is to make sure it’s integrated. McConnell said that the lack of communication among these separate agencies has been a major weakness in American intelligence since well before 2001, adding that “we designed our own system to make the attacks of 9/11 successful.” Still, he added that in recent years, the intelligence community has taken...
...root causes of fanaticism aren't a mystery. Some are external, like the rigid political oppression that exists in almost every Arab country. Some are internal, lying in the endemic ignorance and lack of education in those societies. Both can be changed, however slow and difficult the process...