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...rather than through inspection at the end of the production line. During World War II Deming successfully ; applied his approach to the making of airplane parts. Ignored by postwar American industry, the irascible Deming took his gospel to Japan in 1950, where it was embraced. His ideas finally took root in the U.S. in the 1980s, when the Detroit auto industry asked for his help in competing with the very Japanese firms he had inspired...
...shot at a championship heading into the final two weeks—will be next week’s Yale-Brown matchup. As difficult as it may be, Harvard fans are going to have to swallow their pride, put on anything blue they own, and root for the Bulldogs to knock off the Bears. If Brown gets by Yale unscathed, the race is pretty much done. The Bears finish up against Dartmouth and Columbia and with the Ivy title on the line, they won’t drop one of those games. But if the Bulldogs come through with...
...relationship screen time is spent having sex, walking around post-sex, or trying to get to sex. When not having sex, they are either fighting or noticing their age difference. By focusing more on sex than meaningful dialogue, the writer/director prevents the audience from being able to root for a “real” cinematic relationship. There are many beautifully-directed stylistic nuances in “Prime,” and a steady stream of quotable one-liners (says Rafi of her relationship, “This just smells of pool boy at Sandals Resort?...
...Mahathir Mohamad retired. The two men could not be more different. The soft-spoken, affable Abdullah is noted for his non-confrontational, consensus-seeking style, while Mahathir was more blunt and autocratic. When general elections were held a year ago, Abdullah campaigned on a platform of change, promising to root out corruption and to introduce greater transparency in government; he and his political party, the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), won a landslide victory. Abdullah quickly got to work, postponing or scaling back several of the huge?and hugely expensive?infrastructure projects that Mahathir favored. The government's previously somnolent...
...underlying ideology of the theater: showcasing important films that might otherwise go unseen. “What we’re trying to do is get to a point where we don’t have to rely on ticket sales,” says Hinkle. At the root of the problem, then, is a set of competing interests: the Brattle would like to continue to screen their wide variety of films without worrying about profits, but they are more dependent on those profits than their more financially secure competitors. HFA and Kendall each have the financial safety...