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Since the start of the year, the 16 European nations that make up the euro zone have watched their currency plunge to an eight-month low as a result of sovereign-debt panic. Greece, which is perhaps the weakest link in the European Union, was first to hit the wall on news that its deficit has ballooned to nearly 13% of GDP. Then last week, worry about debt default spread from Greece to Spain, Portugal and Ireland, where spending is similarly out of control. (See the best business deals...
...efficiently. Ironically, Japan's awful postwar poverty acted as a spur. The production techniques of American car companies - with heaps of stored components awaiting assembly, and ample machinery to do it - was just too wasteful and expensive for Japan. Toyota had to learn to do more with less. The result was TPS - or, more generically, lean manufacturing. Inventories were all but eliminated by employing just-in-time delivery techniques, in which suppliers brought components to the assembly line only when needed...
...This was not a result of either his lifestyle or his diet, which have been excellent," said Schwartz, referring to Clinton's procedure on Thursday. "His cholesterol numbers and other risk factors that we follow have all been excellent...
...last Olympics with mandatory gender-verification tests, seven females were found to have androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS), a condition in which a person is genetically male - that is, her 23rd chromosome pair is XY - but is resistant to androgens, the male sex hormones that include testosterone. As a result, the body doesn't hear the signal to develop as a male and so develops externally as a female. All seven athletes were allowed to compete in Atlanta...
Chinchilla, as a result, has had to fend off suggestions by Solis and other political foes that she's a puppet of Arias, under whom she served as Vice President, and his social-democratic National Liberation Party, to which she belongs as well. The daughter of a former Costa Rican comptroller general, Chinchilla earned a master's degree in public policy at Georgetown University in Washington in the 1980s. But while she often wore indigenous fashions as a college student and criticized the Reagan Administration's involvement in Central America's conflicts, she is a social conservative, opposing abortion rights...