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...organizing philosophy behind TPS is popularly ascribed to a concept called kaizen - Japanese for "continuous improvement." In practice, it's the idea of empowering those people closest to a work process so they can participate in designing and improving it, rather than, say, spending every shift merely whacking four bolts to secure the front seat as each car moves down the line. Continuous improvement constantly squeezes excess labor and material out of the manufacturing process: people and parts meet at the optimal moment. Kaizen is also about spreading what you've learned throughout the system. And then repeating...
Nesi's depression abated, but she continued to feel periodic pangs of sadness throughout the course of her pregnancy. On Oct. 27, 2006, when her first son was born, Nesi was overjoyed. But two weeks later, a powerful shift in mood overtook her, ballooning into an episode of postpartum depression that lasted four months. "My mother had to come down and take care of my baby," says Nesi...
...course, Dorale's sea-level measurements are just one point of data that will need to be confirmed by other scientists - along with his own work, which will continue in Mallorca. And because the Earth itself changes shape over tens of thousands of years, responding to the shift of ice and water on its surface, it's impossible to infer the entire geological story from one location at one point of time...
...Washington, D.C.," according to Mayor Adrian Fenty, who said on Wednesday that the city would ask the federal government to foot some of the cleanup costs. The city's Department of Transportation director of communications, Karyn Le Blanc, told TIME that plow crews were on their ninth 12-hour shift clearing snow, a stretch that dates back to the weekend's blizzard. "Mother nature has a very weird sense of humor," she quipped. More snow is expected next week...
...bonuses, which make up a large percentage of many state employees' total wages, and increases in the retirement age for women. A strike organized by Greece's largest public workers' union, ADEDY, also caused schools and government offices to shut and planes to be grounded. "They cannot shift the cost of their mistakes to the working people," said Ilias Vrettakos, vice president of ADEDY. "We will not compromise...