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Gradually, employees started embracing the idea of rethinking the old ways of doing things. Arpey likes to hold up a set of plastic cutlery to show how far the two sides have come in helping management cut some $2.2 billion in costs annually. Plastic forks and spoons used to cost $2 million a year, but employees at headquarters came up with the idea of reverse auctioning on the Internet and saved $600,000 by buying them in Asia. Of all the changes in operating methods, some of the most productive have come in aircraft maintenance. Workers on MD-80 heavy...
...suburban Portland last week, when the FBI took former Army officer and Muslim convert Brandon Mayfield, 37, into custody on a material witness warrant. So far, 18 people have been charged in the attacks, which are being blamed on a Morocco-based cell of Muslim extremists. In March, a plastic shopping bag containing detonators like those used in the attacks was discovered inside a stolen white van near a suburban Madrid train station, U.S. and Spanish officials said. When a fingerprint on the bag appeared to match Mayfield's--the first U.S. link in the case--the FBI began covert...
KNEE DEFENDERS Two plastic devices fit on your tray table to keep the seat in front from reclining too much. They have the FAA's approval...
...worst organizational crisis in recent Olympic history. When Angelopoulos-Daskalaki took over the Games organization shortly after, she scaled back extravagant projects. Last February, the I.O.C.'s new president, Jacques Rogge, urged Greeks to forget the frills. Landscaping plans were pruned, a rail line was cancelled and the plastic roof over the Aquatic Center was scrapped. Even if everything goes well from here, those compromises will be felt. Visitors are being advised to wear comfortable shoes and be prepared to hoof it. Some insiders say these...
...MAXx is not just another plastic backboard,” he tells anyone who will listen, chanting the slogan printed on the display behind him. He designed the floating stretcher himself, he explains, to be entirely resistant to pathogens in the case of a biological cataclysm...