Word: sharpe
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Toyota Motor Co. has achieved world class another way, first through exporting from Japan and then by building foreign plants. In both cases it employs a unique production system that cuts costs through continuous improvement, yielding sharp reductions in product development and manufacturing lead times. The cornerstone of the system involves a "platform team" approach that unites managers in such disparate areas as engineering, design, purchasing and field service and even provides suppliers to shepherd a vehicle from blueprints into the customer's hands in 2 1/2 years instead of the typical four to six years most car manufacturers take...
...Initial reports suggested that four students were killed and many more were injured when police fired into a crowd of 5,000 in Jakarta -- it was unclear whether they used sharp ammunition or plastic-coated bullets. Police also violently dispersed protesters in other cities. "The student protests are turning out to be much more durable than anyone expected," says Dowell. "There seems to be a web of resistance building up there which hasn't really existed before." Bad news for the aging Suharto, and, in the absence of an obvious successor, it may also bring Indonesia another year of living...
...rally began when Holy Cross junior JenniferJenkins sent a sharp grounder to second. Harvardjunior co-captain Tara LaSovage bobbled the ballinitially, and her throw to first was too late toget Jenkins...
Seven hundred miles south of Shah's war room is Faye Yager, a legendary, sharp-tongued Atlanta belle on a holy crusade, who proudly admits to hiding Shah's ex-wife and daughters in her sprawling international underground for alleged victims of abuse. To hear her tell it, Shah's sorrowful tale of a father's love isn't even close to the real story, which, Yager claims, is a docudrama of sex and lies, money and madness, violence and revenge...
That first husband, Roger Jones, became a hunted man, suspected of molesting countless children. In 1990 he went on trial in Florida for abusing a 13-year-old girl. Faye was there, wearing a black veil, to watch with icy glances sharp enough to castrate the bastard. And Jones, who earlier had become the first person ever to make the FBI's ten-most-wanted list for sex crimes involving children, was convicted of lewd and lascivious acts with a child, and will die in jail...