Word: manuals
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...often compared to the Vatican's. Above all, it brought to Orlando the power of the Disney ethos, which can never be overstated. Executives have traveled to the park to learn about the Disney style of management, which trains employees to cherish Walt, despise stray gum wrappers, follow a manual that sets the hem length of costumes to the exact inch and put on a smile all day every day. KGB agents have visited the park to line up for photographs with Mickey Mouse. Cultural anthropologist Umberto Eco has studied the Disney iconography. Novelists like Max Apple have produced mythical...
Final stop is Continental Toyota, where a slick, streamlined Celica has been waiting to capture Heather's heart. She jumps into a white $14,600 hardtop and opens the sun roof, declaring, "This is so cute!" The floor model has a stick shift; instantly Heather insists, "I could learn manual shifting." She would drive it out the door right now if she could. Julie says, "I don't think there's even a comparison" with the Calais or the Sunbird...
...Morgan has a point when he says that Swarthmore's training manual is confusing. I agree. Yes, Mr. Morgan has a point when he says that rape is "ugly, violent and dehumanizing." But no, Mr. Morgan cannot use statements like "No can mean a variety of things" to back up his arguments. Rape happens because a woman's wishes are not respected. Rape happens because some men believe that if a woman kisses them, or goes out on a date with them, or lets them into their room at night, that they have the right to have sex with them...
What exactly is date rape? Well, it all depends on whom you ask. According to a Swarthmore College training manual, "acquaintance rape...spans a spectrum of incidents and behaviors ranging from crimes legally defined as rape to verbal harassment and inappropriate innuendo." The new rape does not necessarily involve force or intercourse. The new rape does not even require the victim's verbal or physical resistance...
...equipment deployed, and our productivity in 1990 was 10 times what our annual average was for the preceding 19 years. Automation is the best hope for the future to keep postal rates below inflation. We will be fully automated by 1995. This is a major changeover. Our standard of manual sortation is exactly equal to what Benjamin Franklin could do. He could do about 11 pieces of mail a minute, and our standard still is 700 per hour. Our automated sorting machines can do 35,000 pieces per hour, 50 times that...