Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Tulsa never looked so sweet...
With the co-captain’s victory, Harvard was just a point from clinching a trip to Tulsa, and Chu appeared about to close out his match...
...Crimson will travel to the University of Tulsa to take on top-ranked Illinois (28-0, 13-0 Big Ten), the defending national champions, in the Round...
...have come in aircraft maintenance. Workers on MD-80 heavy overhauls realized they could reuse perfectly good windows, light bulbs and fasteners on the plane's outer skin without compromising safety. They saved $30,000 on each overhaul--trimming at least $5 million a year. Shop-floor workers in Tulsa, Okla., taking lean-manufacturing tips from a Toyota sensei, or master, trimmed time and inventory, freeing up room to in-source aircraft repair work from American Eagle...
Even longtime veterans got into the act. In a corner of the huge maintenance complex in Tulsa, Ralph Dwain Garrison and Jack (Robin) Hood schemed to save drill bits costing as much as $200 each that were routinely being tossed after a few uses. Garrison took the motor from his son's science project and slapped on a vacuum-cleaner belt to create "Thumpin' Ralph"--a machine to sharpen old drill bits for reuse. Savings? Over $300,000. "The old mind-set--unions vs. management--it's still there for about 10% of the people," says machinist Jim Messick...