Word: shipyards
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...Finland Station. Others by refusing to depart: Rosa Parks from her seat on the bus, that kid from the path of the tank near Tiananmen Square. There were magical folks who could make freedom radiate through the walls of a Birmingham jail, a South African prison or a Gdansk shipyard...
Just one day after a Xerox repairman calmly walked into the company's Honolulu office and allegedly shot seven co-workers to death, the nightmare replayed itself in Seattle. This time the suspect was a camouflaged gunman in his 30s who fatally shot two men at a shipyard and then escaped. Both incidents--along with last July's trading-floor massacre in Atlanta, where an investor killed nine people before turning the gun on himself--attracted extensive live coverage on TV news channels. Anyone tuning in could be forgiven for thinking that the U.S. is in the grip...
...have probably never talked in their lives before, and the rich and intricate tapestry she weaves from their stories is enough to make one rethink our entire Western value system. When she describes the family spirit and pride in their work of the men at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, shut down by the government, or the still reverberating agony of one of the soldiers who witnessed the My Lai massacre, or the pathetic, "I wanna be a star" fantasies of a member of the Spur Posse (the California teens who kept score of their sexual conquests), she goes...
After its use in the 1944 invasion of Normandy, the ship was deemed unfit for passengers, and it was left in a shipyard to be used as scrap metal...
...that the chopping happens close to home, which reduces outsourcing costs and keeps jobs nearby. Volvo, based in Goteborg, Sweden, has turned an old shipyard in the nearby town of Arendal into a supplier village, where nine supplier partners construct components and subsystems and line them up in the proper order before shipping them to the assembly plant. It all happens in double-quick time. "We give them eight days' notice to get the quantities together, and then we give them four hours' notice to do the sequencing," Franzen says...