Word: trim
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...major European aerospace company has tested the software. That's an industry whose products take years to develop and remain in the market for decades but are loaded with electronic components that have the life span of gnats. The company has used the software to trim costs by figuring out the best time to replace many components across several product lines while also introducing product upgrades. "Offering options over time is pretty unique to these guys," a company executive tells Time...
...would be difficult to imagine a man who looks less like a writer than John Grisham. A whisker under 6 ft., Grisham, 51, is handsome and trim, a former jock who's still in shape. He wears jeans and has an almost actorly sense of self-possession about him. He talks in measured phrases. He doesn't fidget. If you feel like a Diet Coke, he'll fetch it himself. His charm is Clintonian; in fact, the two are distant cousins...
...pilgrimages to Dharamsala, India, to hear the Dalai Lama's Kalachara teachings. Last year, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader struck an unusually secular note, warning against the exploitation of endangered species. Tibetans are among Asia's largest consumers of tiger pelts and leopard skins. They use the fur to trim their robes, in rituals and as rugs; tiger claws and dried leopard organs are also used in traditional medicine, and Tibetans dominate the illicit trade in animal parts between India and China. The Dalai Lama's word traveled fast. Buddhists in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, burned their pelts in massive...
...been testing the software for SmithBayes, including one major European aerospace company. That's an industry whose products take years to develop and remain in the market for decades, but are loaded with electronic components that have the life span of gnats. That company has used the software to trim costs by figuring out the best time to replace many components across several product lines, while also introducing product upgrades. An executive with that company tells Time that his firm plans to make greater use of the SmithBayes software. Rival products, he says, can't factor in changes over time...
...also oversee the operations of what had been the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue. In the short term, two top prelates - Japanese Cardinal Stephen Fumio Hamao and British Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, respectively - lost their Curial positions in the double mergers. It also signals a long-term commitment to trim bureaucratic...