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Today on the bookshelves of nearly every Army office in the Pentagon, alongside military-history tomes, sits a stack of business books that try to decipher what Lean Six Sigma means. Harvey, the spiritual godfather of the Army's transformation, tries to cut through the jargon. "We used to call it 'quality and productivity improvement' or 'total quality management,'" says Harvey, who worked for Westinghouse for nearly three decades. "The bottom line is, you take the extra steps out of the system, and improvement should be ongoing and forever...
...concert business booming louder than a Marshall stack? Partly it's a turn in the fashion cycle from dance music - with its DJs, clubs and records - to live shows. But it's also part of a broader shift in the economics of pop music. Despite a threefold increase in digital-music revenue from downloads, global-retail revenues from recorded music fell a further 2% in 2005; overall the figure is down 20% since 1999. That crisis has seen a wholesale revamping of the music-business model. In the old days, sending a band on tour was seen as a necessity...
...some evidence to back it up. He likes to reel off the names of new GM models earning solid reviews, notably the Chevy HHR, Buick Lucerne and Saturn Sky. GM has made enormous leaps in quality too, so Lutz bridles at the notion that its vehicles don't stack up. "I can't find words that can be printed in a family publication to express my opinion of that view," he says in his office in downtown Detroit. "Our No. 1 problem is the perception...
...from the time an attorney files an appeal to when a decision is reached and a written opinion is issued. Deciding which cases to review is “more mechanical than people think,” Breyer said. “If you were to go through my stack tomorrow, you’d be surprised at how much agreement there would be in the cases you would pick for the court to hear and the cases I would pick,” Breyer said. He added that because of the specificity of the criteria used by the court...
...allowing for reuse in future works by other artists. Maybe Viswanathan should look into this license for her next novel, to keep future generations of literary borrowers from running into the legal and publicity problems she now faces. Or just pull a Diddy and give Ms. McCafferty a fat stack of Benjamins.—Staff writer Will B. Payne can be reached at payne@fas.harvard.edu...