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...developed in the 1930s, which focuses on increasing efficiency and reducing cycle time by eliminating waste. Six Sigma was first used on a wide scale by Motorola in the 1980s as an approach to improving quality through statistical measurements and benchmarking, Evans explains. Six Sigma entered the U.S. business lexicon in a big way in the 1990s when CEO Jack Welch embraced it at General Electric...
...conflict between demands of a job and the needs of a family is not exactly the most original one in the comic-dramatic lexicon. That's especially true of a movie that aspires to popular approval. As you might imagine, Michael inevitably opts for "family values." That is to say, he learns the appropriate lessons from his trip into the future. The question is, will filmmakers ever learn theirs? Conceptually, Click contains the faint possibility of a certain rueful elegance. That universal remote is a technologically (and psychologically) hip way to lead him (and us) into what amounts...
...prime-time drama has turned into such a monster hit for ABC, consistently ranking among the top five prime-time shows. Almost 20 million viewers--two-thirds of them women--tune in each week, according to Nielsen Media Research. The show has even contributed a word to the lexicon: McDreamy, as in Dr. McDreamy, the nickname of tousle-haired heartthrob Dr. Shepherd...
...critical awareness of the nuances of studying the literature of “the Rest.” Her work challenges writers who create text to examine how and why they choose a given language, and simultaneously asks those who study this work to examine their own assumptions and lexicon. And there are always more questions. “Art is so often about syncretism, about the breaking down of boundaries,” Sen reflects. “Yet when we study it, we categorize and label it. How do we deal with essential divide...
...Harvard isn’t ready to relinquish all of its labyrinthine lexicon...