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...plant. The company has also posted an on-site representative at Red River to oversee repair work on transmissions for BAE's Bradley. Working together, the BAE--Red River team increased output from 1.5 to 4 units per shift. In many Army facilities, the physical work, or "touch labor," is done by military staff, "but the crucial technical support is private industry," says Griffin of the Army Matériel Command. There are more than 300 such partnerships throughout the Army, and Griffin says they accounted for $225 million in cost savings last year alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lean and Mean | 7/5/2006 | See Source »

...Toscanini mane gazed raptly at the proceedings. He swayed his long frame to the songs, clapped along with "Hey Jude" and, when a huge bed sheet whooshed up from the stage to eventually cover most of the 2,000 spectators, lifted his arms with an eager reverence to touch the fabric, as if it were a gigantic Shroud of Turin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beatles Come Together | 6/30/2006 | See Source »

...friendly rivalry with Bly was Hall’s favorite. “It was a kind of stimulus to try to work harder and be better,” he says. Their friendship has spanned the decades, Hall says, and the two of them are still constantly in touch...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: For Poet Laureate, In Vino Veritas | 6/30/2006 | See Source »

...development deal with 20-year-old YouTube comic sensation Brooke [Brookers] Brodack.) Online, the competition is not just CBS and Fox: it's college kids on MySpace and raunchy comedy sites like collegehumor com The networks can't take as many risks online--even though the FCC can't touch them there. Daniels considered letting actors swear in the Office webisodes but says he didn't think "people wanted to hear their favorite characters shouting profanities they wouldn't hear on the regular show." Advertisers sure wouldn't; one reason they're urging the networks online is not to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get The Office At Your Office | 6/26/2006 | See Source »

...LIVINGSTONES Inspired by her native Nice's shingle beach, French designer St?phanie Marin's line of giant pebble "poufs"?which come in varying sizes?add a surrealist touch to interiors. Covered in soft new wool and dyed natural rock colors, they come in free-form cushion and couch shapes. Buy one, or to get the full-fledged outdoorsy effect, a whole roomful. smarin.net...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bags of Style | 6/26/2006 | See Source »

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