Word: leaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more difficult to predict is how viewers will react to the video footage of the event. When -- and if -- the time comes, what will spectators do? Lean in toward the screen, fascinated? Cringe in horror? Cover their children's eyes? When Harris' body goes limp, many will breathe a sigh of relief. But will it be for the murderer? His victims? Themselves...
...Detroit stem the onslaught of Japan's strongest competitors? That depends on how well the Big Three learn the lessons of lean and efficient manufacturing that those competitors have to teach. Among them: treating workers like people rather than parts and catching defects before they occur rather than trying to fix them afterward...
...hope of the U.S. industry is to recognize that lean manufacturing is superior to mass production and adopt it," says Daniel Roos, an M.I.T. professor and co-author of The Machine That Changed the World, a five-year study of the worldwide car industry. "Detroit has extraordinarily good and talented people," Roos adds. "There is no reason why it can't compete effectively." Demonstrating that statement's truth will be the Big Three's biggest challenge for the rest of this century...
...daughters Jessica, 19, and Cynthia, 20, and a black Lab named Bear). He could catch up with Jeopardy and Cheers. Come Sunday, he could go to a real church and sit in a pew without sand in his boots. And while he savored his privacy, Norman Schwarzkopf could lean back and let the rest of America ponder his future...
...roughly 4 million U.S. workers covered by such plans are living by the ancient rule of markets everywhere: risk and reward go together. Unlike corporate chieftains, who often prosper no matter how their companies fare, workers in these programs may suffer painful cuts in income when times are lean. Uncertain pay can create problems when it comes to such mundane matters as applying for mortgages, which usually demand predictable annual income -- to say nothing of the impact of variable wages on one's ability to pay back loans. But the payoff can also be great, allowing productive employees to make...