Word: soft
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...factory-utilization rate is less than 60%. That's abysmal - the rate needs to be in the 80s for the company to be successful - and it's one reason GM is hemorrhaging cash. "We don't believe the rest of '09 will be strong. We are going to stay soft through the rest of the year," says Lars Luedeman, director of analytics at Grant Thornton, which follows the industry. Dealer inventories are approaching a 100-day supply; 60 days is more typical...
...older brother Kim Jong Chul were enrolled in a program created specifically for them at Kim Il Sung Military University. Kim is said by his former sushi chef, Kenji Fujimoto, who wrote a memoir of his days in the North, to think that Jong Chul was "soft and effeminate." But he adores Jong Un, who Fujimoto says has a hot temper, like his father. There are unconfirmed reports that earlier this year, Kim officially singled out Jong Un as his successor...
...releasing her fifth book - co-authored with autism specialist Dr. Jerry Kartzinel, titled Healing and Preventing Autism. The book is awfully smart when it comes to hardheaded advice for families trying to heal - or at least draw out - an autistic child. But McCarthy goes soft when she starts exploring the causes of autism, making the usual charges against the usual suspects, including nutrition, environmental toxins and, as always, vaccines. McCarthy and TIME science editor Jeffrey Kluger sparred over the causes of autism and the safety of vaccines. (See the year in medicine...
...suggest at least one promising avenue of confronting youth obesity—changing zoning laws to prevent fast-food restaurants from opening near schools. By reducing access to unhealthful foods, schools can at least promote nutritious choices during school hours. Indeed, there is precedent within schools themselves, where soft drinks have often been eliminated from vending machines and more healthful options have been introduced in the school cafeterias...
...same ways that human food has changed - towards healthy, organic stuff - and pet-training has become as common as sending your kid to driver's ed. There are these huge philosophical battles over whether dog-training should be done in an authoritarian way or a soft rewarding-good-behavior sort of way that mirrors the culture wars in politics. (See pictures of Presidential First Dogs...