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...flexibility also extends to the rhythm of work: BMW has struck deals with its heavily unionized workforce that enable it to run its factories more or less as demand dictates. Its newest plant in Leipzig, where the 3-series and new 1-series hatchback cars are built, runs anywhere from 60 to 140 hours per week. Instead of classic two- or three-shift rosters, the company juggles some 300 working-time permutations to determine optimal use of its teams of workers, some of whom are contract "permatemps" more common...
...tend to get bored now waiting around on a film set. We're shooting [Damages] in high definition, which means that each take is 50 minutes long. It's uninterrupted acting, so you can get into a great rhythm...
Inside the city of Samarra, the fighting has taken on a daily rhythm. In the afternoons, insurgents sling mortars, rockets and bullets into U.S. and Iraqi compounds, usually disappearing in the street before anyone has a chance to kill or wound them. At night, U.S. troops roll from their outpost on the eastern edge of Samarra and search those same streets for fighters moving about laying roadside bombs. They usually find some, and shooting erupts again...
...Walsh said. “I thought we had enough pitching to get the job done, but we just weren’t putting enough guys on base.”March snows and April showers certainly didn’t help Harvard sustain any kind of offensive rhythm. The team missed a weekend of games during its strenuous nonconference schedule in Florida, then had several matchups in April postponed or cancelled, including its always anticipated Beanpot game at Fenway Park. “The team was really starting to hit its stride in those first two games with Yale...
Calvert’s loss was evident when Harvard scored just four goals against the Buckeyes. Motschwiller and Widbin were also sorely missed in the final games, as the core could not find any kind of rhythm...