Word: leanness
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...packed with sugar, fat and refined grains (think cookies and candy bars). In general, processed foods hog ever larger portions of all Americans' diets--one reason we spend just a tenth of our incomes on food today, compared with a fifth in 1950. But a pound of lean steak costs a lot more than a pound of hot dogs. "The stomach is a dumb organ," says J. Larry Brown, director of the Center on Hunger and Poverty in Waltham, Mass. "It doesn't know anything about quality. It knows only when it's full...
...aircraft maintenance. Workers on MD-80 heavy overhauls realized they could reuse perfectly good windows, light bulbs and fasteners on the plane's outer skin without compromising safety. They saved $30,000 on each overhaul--trimming at least $5 million a year. Shop-floor workers in Tulsa, Okla., taking lean-manufacturing tips from a Toyota sensei, or master, trimmed time and inventory, freeing up room to in-source aircraft repair work from American Eagle...
...engineering professor at the University of Michigan, Liker argues that Toyota is unique in that it doesn't "mistake lean tools for lean thinking." Its employees show an almost cultlike devotion to eliminating waste, speeding the assembly process and boosting quality controls at every step. Simple as that might sound, most firms that try to copy the Toyota way (and many have tried) fail because they don't have the discipline to stick with it. That may not be the best message when you're trying to sell a corporate diet book. Unlike many diet books, though, at least...
...everyone does here--fit for battle (the guys) or for bed (the women). Pitt and Bana carry the film on their dishy delts. Bloom is so winsome as Paris that he almost makes the cowardly girly-man a teen idol. And for echoes of epics past, Troy has David Lean's Lawrence and Lara: O'Toole, sere and majestic, and Julie Christie as Achilles' mother Thetis...
After the departure of Lecturer on the Study of Religion Brian C.W. Palmer '86, Bartley’s will begin offering a very lean burger made of nothing but skin and bones (vegan of course...