Word: platforms
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Every part on a new model has a team comprising a purchasing engineer, a design engineer and a quality engineer--called PDQ--in charge of taking that part from concept through production. "The three of them together act as a business," says Tony Stefanelli, Buell's senior platform director. "They're like entrepreneurs, developing a product that they sell back to Buell every day on the assembly line." Instead of handing off their work to the line engineers, Buell designers own their parts through the manufacturing process. "If your part design isn't working, you have to go over...
Brad M. Paraszczak ’11, who advertised his Kirkland House campaign by photoshopping himself into a poster of South Park characters, says that “the posters are just an eye-catcher to get people to find out more information,” noting that his platform was further outlined in a Facebook group...
...been possible because we've been able to get the media, civil society and corporate sector together," says Adeline Aubry, a former UNV program officer under whom the initiative was launched. India has had a long tradition of volunteerism, she says, "but Teach India gives them a giant common platform for a common cause...
...keening whistle sounded over the Italian countryside as a small train appeared in the middle distance. At the fairground platform, Oliver J. Swindleton fiddled with his stolen cravat and practiced his Italian accent.“Eh...veridamente molto bene. A-pleased-ah to meet you signora! Mozzarella...vino...andante!”Squeaking slightly, the miniature engine pulled into the station. The coupling rod of the middle wheel slowly and rhythmically turned and straightened. Ollie immediately recognized Felicity’s elegant head as she sat in one of the little passenger cars. He glanced at her again?...
...once a bomb thrower, the only remaining member of the Gang of Seven - a band of young conservative members who delighted in harassing the Democratic majority in the early 1990s. But in recent years, he's become more of a moderate, elected to lead his conference on a platform of bipartisanship. As the top Republican on the Education and Workforce Committee, he worked with Democrats to pass No Child Left Behind and the Pension Protection...