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...river dropped its sediment into deep water. Before the jetties were built, 100 ships at a time often waited days for deep-enough water to pass over sandbars blocking the Mississippi's mouth. The levees and jetties stopped sediment from feeding the deltas; the land sank, and coastal Louisiana shrank. Similarly, other great ports on deltaic rivers, like Rotterdam, are also below sea level; the airport serving Amsterdam is 20 ft. below sea level, lower than any part of New Orleans...
...j3.36 billion, making it the third largest car manufacturer in Europe. But when Ghosn was named ceo last April, he inherited slowing European car markets, and dated production and management systems. With Renault sales in Western Europe dropping 7.3% in the second half of 2005, group operating profit margin shrank from 5.2% to 3.2%. Ghosn was forced to issue profit warnings for 2006, and indicated that 2007 would be slow too. In response, Ghosn spent nine months looking at the group's international offices, assembly lines and even dealerships to map out a new business plan for Renault. He wants...
...contrast, some Harvard freshmen said they shrank in size since they passed through the Yard’s august gates, possibly a testament to the good work of HUDS...
Will the new designs be enough to stop the rot? Ford Motor's share of the U.S. auto and truck market has been steadily declining, from 24.1% in 2000 to 17.4% last year, while GM's shrank from 28.3% to 26.2%. To put that into perspective, Ford last year made 3.15 million vehicles, although it has the infrastructure to make 3.9 million, by Harbour Consulting's calculations. That kind of capacity utilization--79%--is hideously inefficient. The company's stock price has fallen 39% in a year--wiping out more than $10 billion in shareholder value...
...waters) migrated toward the shallows north of the original crater. Some 1.8 million years ago, the atoll contained an inland sea continually replenished by ocean waters. But as the rising coral walls gradually closed out the ocean, newly deposited sediments' piled up in the forming lagoon. The inland sea shrank, the basin filled with fresh water and, in the warm southern sun, soon became clogged with the rich grasses that formed the Everglades. Central Florida's Lake Okeechobee, says Petuch, is the last remnant of that great, sediment-filled lake...