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...what's the game plan? Basically, make Ford look more like industry leader Toyota. Ford has steadily made progress in that regard: standardizing vehicle architectures across global brands; increasing the number of body styles built on the same platforms; cutting product-development times; and opening factories with flexible assembly lines. Mulally, who has studied Toyota's vaunted production system, says it's too soon to discuss changes: "The key will be being able to see that we're making progress and moving forward." It sounds mushy. But if Mulally can attach wings to Ford and get the company to soar...
...want. There are two things. Or perhaps both elements. We must sort out what part of this problem is Afghan. And then that is our responsibility to handle. Be it corruption, be it lack of capacity, or be it some Afghan elements that would not like us to make progress or have foreign friends. But the bigger part, the more serious part, is the foreign element of instability in Afghanistan. Of blasts of explosions, of killings of engineers, of our clergy and our students. That is the part that I want the international community to focus upon more heavily...
...greater emphasis on preparedness, safety, emergency response. People still worry about the health of the volunteers, the residents, and the workers who were there. As chair of the committee for Lower Manhattan Redevelopment, I do have some frustrations. It's disappointing that we haven't had more progress at the site. Also, in the rush to return to normal, the city and the feds have not always erred on the side of caution with the environmental and health issues, as the recent Mt. Sinai report demonstrates so dramatically. The difference now, five years later, is that in addition to dealing...
...found sense in their struggle through spirituality or politics, few will miss the camps. "We are ready to go," says Janani Okello, 59, a former teacher who arrived at Anaka in 1990. The fear of fires in the camp now outweighs the fear of the world outside. That's progress, of a kind...
...Mayor Nagin, who has been criticized of late for remarks about the slow progress in rebuilding New York's "hole in the ground", predicts a boom is in the making with $60 billion in construction-related funds about to pour in from federal and state sources, including the Road Home program giving homeowners up to $150,000 to rebuild. Ragan says prices for homes are already up 5% to 10% in July. While Uptown is hot (31 properties sold in July), New Orleans East is not (14)."There are houses never even touched since Katrina out there," says Ragan. "People...