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...modest slowing of Chinese exports that was already in the cards. China's leadership will most likely adopt a wait-and-see stance as far as further currency moves are concerned. If GDP keeps surging at its current 9.5% rate, policymakers will probably push harder on the currency-revaluation lever?using slowing exports as the cushion to engineer a soft landing...
Personal computers use floppy disks. FACPACs, a line of disk storage boxes devised by Worrell Design of Minneapolis, are handsome, simple and effective. The lever that fans out and displays ten or twelve disks inside is incorporated into the recessed logo...
Chung Mong Koo, Chairman of South Korea's Hyundai Motor, carefully scrutinizes a newly designed gearshift lever for the automaker's Sonata sedan while his entire senior-management team hovers around, anxiously awaiting his approval. The execs are justifiably edgy. Engineers added a plastic plate beneath the shifter to prevent spilled coffee and other flotsam from falling into the mechanism and gumming...
Chung Mong Koo, chairman of South Korea's Hyundai Motor, carefully scrutinizes a newly designed gearshift lever for the automaker's Sonata sedan while his entire senior management team hovers around, anxiously awaiting his approval. The execs are justifiably edgy. Engineers added a plastic plate beneath the shifter to prevent spilled coffee and other flotsam from falling into the mechanism and gumming it up. It's a minor change, but no one is treating it that way, least of all Chung, a hard-nosed, detail-oriented boss with a penchant for micromanagement. ("He still makes the decision...
...workplace," declares Dr. James Fries, an immunologist at Stanford University, "is the prime location from which to operate the lever of health promotion and disease prevention." Most of the nation's $400 billion health-care bill goes to treat ailments resulting from such potentially controllable problems as alcoholism, smoking, high cholesterol, hypertension and obesity. "Avoiding at least three of them would improve things dramatically," contends Regina Herzlinger, a professor at Harvard Business School and an expert in corporate health-care policy...