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...They make some kind of food at the Munck plant in New Ulm, Minn., but the camera is too distracted by its intent to build a case against Lucy (Zellweger) to ever show us precisely what. Instead, director Jonas Elmer keeps our eyes fixed at the level of supercilious Lucy's excruciatingly high heels as she minces around the factory, to hammer home the fact that she's a fish out of water. Jars of something brown go by occasionally, but it's the people who make the brown stuff who matter. And they are all Real Americans, the salt...
...world's leading purveyors of construction equipment, announced it would shed some 20,000 jobs - nearly one-fifth of its global workforce. The announcement just made things official: the bulk of that astonishing figure is already off the Peoria company's books, including some 2,500 management-level personnel who accepted buyouts in recent weeks and 8,000 people who worked on contract or through agencies as custodians, engineers and information technologists. Temporary layoffs and plant closures are expected in the coming weeks, and more cuts are likely by the year...
...capital resources are deployed along that line of sight, so value gets created and added quickly, consistently and cost effectively. This makes the aligned organization fiercely competitive and an ultimate high-performance entity. And you cannot have an aligned organization without aligned teams. For an organization to raise its level of performance, every team, on every level, must be a great team. That is to say, it must be aligned, or in sync, in five key areas: 1. Business strategy 2. Business deliverables coming from the strategy 3. Roles and responsibilities at individual and business-unit or functional levels...
...President Barack Obama's green-energy rhetoric is on the level, this should be the year the U.S. gets clued in to what much of the rest of the world is already betting: that jatropha, like other nonfood sources such as algae, will revive a biofuels movement battered of late by charges that it diverts too many crops from too many mouths. India has set aside 100 million acres for jatropha and expects the oil to account for 20% of its diesel consumption by 2011. Australia, China, Brazil and Kenya have also embraced it. In December, a Boeing...
...Relman expressed doubts that the legislation would pass at the national level because of the strength of the pharmaceutical company lobby...