Word: production
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THMs form as a by-product to the disinfection process when chlorine reacts to organic compounds in the water. Although the contaminant's effects on people are still being studied, it is thought to cause cancer, according to a state letter dated November...
Yale could be rationalized. At least Friday's 6-2 loss could be chalked up as a product of first-game jitters and the old El: jinx. But Brown...
...from his adversaries and in 1983 launched an all-out campaign for quality. Appealing to the firm's 100,000 workers, the company formed employee teams to encourage shop-floor innovation and cooperative problem solving. Xerox set tough new standards for every phase of its operations, from design and production to inventory management and sales. The results: manufacturing costs and product defects were cut in half, customer satisfaction increased 38%, and Xerox recaptured the lead in moderately priced copiers. Says Kearns: "At Xerox we define quality as meeting customer requirements. It's an axiom as old as business itself...
Young is a local hero, a product of Newton and Belmont Hill. He began playing hockey when he was eight, but Young grew up around the game. Two of his uncles played at Boston College, and his father always loved hockey. As Young describes it, hockey was "in the blood...
Bloch also acknowledged that the federal government's support for science research has been insufficient. As the percentage of the American Gross National Product spent on research has stayed constant at about 2.8 percent in recent years, Japan's has doubled during the same period...