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...presses are computer-monitored precision-production machines that can produce high-quality products at a fast rate. You were also wrong to state that current powder presses are the size of a tractor trailer and demand "the ministrations of at least 200 people to keep them running through a workweek." Many conventional compacting powder presses are certainly much smaller than a tractor trailer, and often they can be handled by just one skilled production worker. PETER K. JOHNSON, MANAGING EDITOR International Journal of Powder Metallurgy Princeton...
...from truck-motor parts to medical equipment. Remarkably common though they are, these machines are remarkably crude. Most powder presses are great, loud, chugging things, about the size and shape of a tractor trailer and demanding the ministrations of at least 200 people to keep them running through a workweek. Retooling the presses to switch from making one component to another can take days. And any parts the machines do produce are coarse things at best, requiring up to a dozen refinements and improvements before they're ready...
...countries would seem less likely to succeed in the modern world of globalization, free trade and high-tech, speed-of-light capitalism than France. Widely caricatured as the home of the five-week vacation, the 35-hour workweek and the crippling public-sector strike, this overcentralized, overtaxed, state-heavy, tradition-bound, protectionist and perversely self-satisfied nation could not possibly survive in the competitive, market-driven international arena of today. Could...
...which ensured France's participation in the single European currency and tied its destiny to the 15-member European Union. Jospin then began a steady sell-off of state companies, a move that reassured the business community and international investors. Most important, and most controversial, were the 35-hour workweek and a program that offered state-subsidized jobs to 350,000 young people. These measures had a psychological function: to treat collective depression. They worked...
Three years after the Knottses had their first child, however, the second came along, and the idea of halving the household income while doubling the number of children it had to support was out of the question. The best Knotts could do was cut her workweek from five days to four, taking herself out of the running for promotions she had coveted but still not getting the round-the-clock time she wants with her kids...