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That is a question Japanese carver Koryu Kawaguchi asks as well. On the outskirts of Tokyo, the 70-year-old master carver sits on a tatami mat, his workbench and tools covered with a fine ivory dust. In his hands is an ivory figurine of the Merciful Mother Kannon, which he has been carving for a month. Beside him sits his son Ryusei, 37, a fourth-generation ivory carver. The elder Kawaguchi is a gentle man with a reverence for the gleaming white medium he has spent his lifetime bringing to life. His eyes are weak from the strain...
...flame has magical properties, a small, delicately structured leaf emerges. More colored glass is added to the gas jet, layer upon layer of opaque, translucent and transparent browns, yellows, oranges and reds, and one by one petals, stamens and stems bloom into being. Paul Stankard leans back from the workbench at his home in Mantua, N.J., and his broad, open face creases into a smile. "You know what I do for a living?" he asks. "I take $25 worth of material, make love to it for a few hours and then sell...
...running of Kirkland fullback John "Workbench" Gilles was also an instrumental factor in the eventual victory, even though he did not score. Gaining more than 100 yards, Gilles provided Kirkland with a flow of first downs while eating away at the remaining time and Leverett's scoring opportunities...
...serious, the British Leyland workers are failing to measure up to guidelines for productivity increases that have been set by the government as a prerequisite for additional investment in British Leyland. In general the productivity of European workers is substantially lower than that of their U.S. counterparts at the workbench or assembly line. Though European growth rates in output per man-hour are often increasing at a faster rate than those in the U.S., Europe's best worker, who happens to be French, produces only 80.6% as much as a U.S. worker. The British worker, who is Europe...
Last Thursday, as time and chances to qualify for one of the ten remaining openings in the 33-car field closed in on her, Guthrie huddled despondently on a workbench in the back of her garage, looking haggard, while teammates lowered the fourth new engine in two weeks into her balky No. 27. Burned-out pistons were a consistent problem, but even when running smoothly the car was no blue streak, failing to get within reach of the 180-m.p.h. speed probably necessary for qualification. With her best lap going into the last day of qualification a low 173.611, Guthrie...