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...acronym for global business excellence, it involves as many as 2,000 people worldwide working to define and standardize everything the company does. Switzerland, Singapore and Peru were the first to switch to the new data system last November, and they found they were able to eliminate a mass of duplications and redundancies in their systems--for example, tens of thousands of customers who were listed several times in databases, alongside vendors who had gone out of business. Among other things, the exercise has shown that Nestle doesn't leverage its size well and often neglects to get volume discounts...
...Jacobsen does move down Mass. Ave to MIT, he will join what Swager called the institute’s “dream team” of reaction development researchers...
...perhaps beyond: Labor leaders may seek to bridge their movement to link up with next week's demonstrations by civil service employees protesting nearly 23,000 job cuts in the public sector planned for 2008. The logic behind such a move would be to attain and increase critical mass opposing Sarkozy's policies. French college students are already staging protests over approved university reform they want rescinded, while thousands of members of France's judicial system will march Nov. 29 to denounce proposed reorganization. Given that rising and potentially unifying resistance to reform, government officials believe they must stand firm...
...surviving passion in this country," says sports journalist David Carlin. "Tango music has a strong following, but it lacks the sense of rivalry that competing clubs bring to soccer. [The political ideologies of] Peronism and anti-Peronism also once provided a similar sense of belonging and loyalty to a mass group, but that kind of political fervor has subsided in recent years...
...during a retirement marked by continued reports of substance abuse, sex scandals and violent confrontations with the paparazzi, Maradona is revered here here as "Saint Maradona," or simply "El Diego." A "Maradonian Church" has been created with followers who gather to celebrate his birthday every year with a "Maradona Mass" that includes dancing girls in front of a "Maradonian" altar...