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...town of Lawrence, Mass. Davis figures he can overcome the higher labor costs in the U.S. and turn his plants into strategic assets--shipping directly to retailers from the factory and saving a bundle on inventory costs. His goal: to make New Balance more like Toyota, a model of lean manufacturing in his own backyard...
...were not allowed to approach witnesses to question them," says Christopher Stone, director of the Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit that promotes innovation in the justice system. "But you couldn't fit Mason and the witness in the same frame, so the directors had Mason walk over and lean on the witness rail. Then juries expected lawyers to do that, and if they didn't, jurors thought something was wrong." Moreover, Stone says, Dragnet helped save the Miranda ruling, which was unpopular with law enforcement and some politicians, by showing viewers that reading suspects their rights didn't hamper...
...disillusioned ones are in a minority. Current and past members seem to lean away from the idea of punching women, and toward the creation and promotion of female final clubs instead...
...Trask, "the new steelmaking capacity in China will eventually catch up with the growth in that region." China's steel output reached 192 million tons through September of this year, up more than 20% from 2003. In the long term, that could mean even more Western overcapacity in the lean years - exactly the kind of situation that made companies like TUI shy away from steel in the first place...
...while building up your arm strength is important, having huge shoulders is not entirely necessary. All that extra muscle just adds unwanted weight to the lightweights’ lean bodies...