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...Hyundai, I, too, didn't think quality cars were important." But the new chairman made blemish-free manufacturing the top priority. To break down interdivisional barriers, Chung forced designers, engineers and factory managers to work as a team by creating joint committees to examine blueprints of new models and weed out potential defects. Twice a month, Chung summons senior managers of Hyundai and Kia into a conference room at his Seoul headquarters to analyze reliability issues, sometimes bringing in a whole car and lifting it up on a hydraulic platform to get a firsthand look. Likewise, the company...
...sprinkle synthetic pesticide in your yard? Recent studies link exposure to the chemicals with reproductive and neurological problems. Only 5% of 90 million lawn-owning households use strictly all-natural, organic methods, such as St. Gabriel Laboratories BurnOut Weed & Grass Killer and TurfMaize weed inhibitor, which cost up to 25% more. To learn about organic lawn products, visit planetnatural.com...
...Such security issues may pose some of the trickiest challenges for the new government. Key leaders of the UIA, such as Abdelaziz Hakim of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, have made clear they want to conduct a wholesale purge of the security forces to weed out former Baathists. But in the past year Prime Minister Allawi has quietly reversed the U.S. policy of ?de-Baathificiation,? which he viewed as dangerous mistakes. A renewed push to purge former Baathists could create further tensions that would play into the hands of the insurgency...
...Eagles chose him over Heisman-trophy running back Ricky Williams as the No. 2 pick in the NFL draft, Philadelphia's raucous fans booed McNabb before he took a single practice snap (Williams has since retired from football to travel, study holistic medicine and, by his own account, smoke weed). Rush Limbaugh thrust an unwitting McNabb into a firestorm in 2003 with his idiotic statement about black quarterbacks being overrated. Among veteran quarterbacks, McNabb has the highest winning percentage. But before this year, he had lost three straight NFC title games, sending Philly fans to the edge of the Schuylkill...
...solely on the basis of, say, promotion of unionized labor or links to abortion. Other funds just knock the worst offenders out of contention and still buy companies that violate stated principles--as long as other companies in the same industry do worse. But even socially responsible funds that weed out a broader swath of companies and corporate practices may wind up not meshing with investors' convictions when it comes down to the gritty details...