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...That was the idea. But the fact that Toyota has produced so many imperfect cars is evidence that its system developed faults. Management experts like John Paul MacDuffie, a co-director of the International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP) at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, place the blame on the company's headlong growth in the past 10 years. In 2000, Toyota produced 5.2 million cars; last year it had the capacity to make 10 million. Since 2000, when Toyota had 58 production sites, it has added 17. In that time, in other words, Toyota has added the capacity...
...relatively small number of platforms, built at plants around the world. That sounds like the epitome of manufacturing efficiency in our globalized economies. But it also explains why the brakes that caused the Prius' recall are found on Toyota's luxury Lexus 300 too. It's a system that all but guarantees that there are no small problems when a part goes bad, only big ones. In fact, global ones...
...spite of his proposed three-year freeze on all domestic discretionary expenditures unrelated to defense, homeland security, or veterans’ affairs, President Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget for 2011 will actually increase spending for various education programs. We welcome the influx of money to a system in dire need of help, and take heart that Obama sees education as a priority even during trying financial times...
...also recognize, however, that more must be done should the United States truly aspire to offer all of its citizens a world-class education. Beyond simply throwing funds at a broken system, we urge the president to maintain his commitment to championing real reforms in tandem with the needed surge in spending...
Similarly, Apple offers a compellingly affordable alternative operating system with OS X Snow Leopard, its newest iteration of OS X. Priced at just $29 for the upgrade edition (or $49 for the five-license Family Pack), it is up to three times cheaper than the Microsoft’s Windows 7 Professional—and that’s not even the most expensive version of Windows available...