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...Crimson leaves Tulsa disappointed, itching to continue tournament play—but the players will also leave knowing that they came this close to knocking off the top team in the country, to ending a winning streak two years in the making and to having a crack at the Elite Eight, an honor Harvard has had only once before...
...Illinois is a great team,” Harvard junior Jonathan Chu said of his opponent, which the Crimson will play against in Tulsa, Okla. “So we look forward to the challenge of playing the best, because if you’re going to make the Sweet 16, you might as well play the best teams there...
...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...