Word: platformed
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...achieved world class another way, first through exporting from Japan and then by building foreign plants. In both cases it employs a unique production system that cuts costs through continuous improvement, yielding sharp reductions in product development and manufacturing lead times. The cornerstone of the system involves a "platform team" approach that unites managers in such disparate areas as engineering, design, purchasing and field service and even provides suppliers to shepherd a vehicle from blueprints into the customer's hands in 2 1/2 years instead of the typical four to six years most car manufacturers take...
According to club members, the new club constitution explicitly notes that while members officially ascribe to the national Republican platform, there is room for a variety of specific political opinions...
...objectives of this club is to promote rational political discourse and to foster academic freedom on the Harvard University campus...And to further the ideals of Republicanism at Harvard and the community at large," the platform reads...
...Thoreau might envy, but a setup that would appall him. For Julia Hill, the 24-year-old ecowarrior who goes by the nom de guerre Butterfly and now holds the U.S. record for the longest, highest tree-sit, life is anything but mellow. From the 180-ft.-high plywood platform where she has camped out since Dec. 10, she fields calls from a New York City radio station, a Little Rock newspaper and German television, which is sending a crew up from Los Angeles. "I have become one with this tree and with nature in a way I would never...
...talkie, Butterfly also has a radio and a solar-powered battery charger. She reads her poetry, written on the inside of Ronzoni pasta cartons, and tells of how one night El Nino's freezing rains and 40-m.p.h. winds nearly tore her off the 8-ft. by 8-ft. platform. "I thought I was going to die," she recalls...