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Chrysler has also negotiated a unique company-wide product-quality agreement with the autoworkers' union. If an assembly-line worker sees a product flaw, he is instructed to tell his foreman, who is obliged to fix it. If the problem recurs, the worker is urged to report it to...
One problem that recurs each September is the unfamiliarity of entering freshmen with potential dangers of Cambridge and Boston at night. Cute signs like the one saying "Go Groupy at Night" draw only limited attention to the problem.
Military historians have spilled much ink on the difficulties of pushing the German army out of Italy. Mowat writes sparely and in the blood of his friends. They fall by the score while crossing exposed rivers and valleys, and stumble upward to their deaths during assaults on heavily fortified mountaintops...
THE HUMAN form--manipulated, distorted fractured, parodied--recurs throughout the show. In Picasso's "Woman in an Armchair" a schematic body is cut into two-dimensional sections as if from plywood. A later work with the same name shares the hideous distortions of the figures in his "Guernica" mural. Inhuman...
Each year some 106,000 U.S. women learn that they have breast cancer. Thanks to improved public awareness, most of them make this discovery while the cancer is still confined to the breast. Following prompt treatment, usually a mastectomy, chances of survival are good: 85% of the women are alive...