Word: slouches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...people affected, RSIs are the nations foremost work-related injury. Yet disparities remain. Sarita M. James 98 is in her first year of working at Microsoft. "None of the Microsoftees that I ve met have RSI," she wrote in an email, "which is rather surprising, considering the pervasive Microsoft slouch. " Similarly incongruous is the report of Karen Gordon, at the Princeton University Health Center. This year she has seen "an increase in the number of cases reported both in students and employees." However, she adds, "from my understanding, we do not have the sort of numbers that Harvard...
...then, in other schools where students use computers, slouch, and get stressed out, have so few students even heard of the disease, much less suffered from it themselves? Maybe it is in what Prof. Harrington calls the "context" of a disease. Gordon, with a note of amusement in her voice, describes a herd instinct she has observed in students reporting problems, "Whenever there s an article in the paper about that sort of thing we get a lot of people in here wondering if they have it." If RSI and chronic pain conditions like it are as culturally mutable...
...therefore issue this challenge to those who still have time to heed it: transcend your doggishness. Your education should put you on the edge of your seat instead of allowing you to slouch firmly at the rear...
...company that is buying Volvo's carmaking division is no slouch at sequencing either. In Saarlouis, Germany, Ford representatives show off a 3,000-foot-long ski-lift contraption that feeds 58,000 sequenced components daily into the company's assembly flow, replacing 3 million miles' worth of truck travel over the course of the year. The modular scheme will enable the company to offer the same diversity of car models on just 16 different chassis by next year, down from 32 platforms in 1998, as part of an overall plan to trim yearly costs $1 billion worldwide...
...behind that perfect spit-roasted lobster, after all, is a bit like a magician's showing just where he hid that bunny. But the drive to commercialize is inevitable. "We're working so hard, it's about time we make money!" Vongerichten exclaims. The famously perfectionist Trotter--himself no slouch in the self-marketing department, with half a dozen books, a new line of sauces and, in January, knives to his name--agrees. "It wasn't so long ago that being a chef was a blue-collar occupation," he says. "Now you decide, Am I going to spend the next...