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Extreme Toyota; radical contradictions that drive success at the world's best manufacturer
Extreme Toyota; radical contradictions that drive success at the world's best manufacturer. Osono, Emi et al. John Wiley & Sons 2008 306 pages $27.95 Hardcover HD9710 Drawing on their access to Toyota facilities and documents and on interviews, Osono and two colleagues...
Tags: contradiction, manufacturer, Manufacturing, Toyota Motor Corp.
Research articles 2008-08-01
9/11 contradictions; an open letter to Congress and the press
9/11 contradictions; an open letter to Congress and the press. Griffin, David Ray. Interlink Publishing Group 2008 346 pages $20.00 Paperback HV6432 Griffin (emeritus, religion and theology, Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate U.) identifies internal contradictions in the various public...
Tags: contradiction, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2008-08-01
Aussie great lashes FINA over record-breaking swimsuits
SYDNEY AFP — Australian Olympic swimming great Shane Gould has slammed governing body FINA for what she says is its contradiction over allowing swimmers to wear space-age swimsuits at next month's Beijing Games. Gould, 51, who won three gold medals all in world record time at the 1972 Munich...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, contradiction, performance
Research articles 2008-07-27
Research and Markets: This Book Takes a Fascinating Inside Look at What Makes Toyota Tick
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/260d4c/extreme_toyota_ra) has announced the addition of the "Extreme Toyota: Radical Contradictions That Drive Success at the World's Best Manufacturer" report to their offering. To an outsider, Toyota is hard to understand. The company moves forward gradually while also advancing in big leaps. It...
Tags: contradiction, Manufacturing, Toyota Motor Corp.
Research articles 2008-07-02
Deduction, emotion in 'Piano Quartet'
y Peter Dobrin You don't notice the greatness at first. Yevgeniy Sharlat's  Piano Quartet , unveiled at an Astral concert Sunday, starts with melodies that must be deduced, almost like one of those pixelated puzzles whose image can only be seen if you stand back far enough. But then patterns...
Tags: contradiction, Moscow, Yale University
Research articles 2008-04-01
Zimbabwe's white farmers face uncertain future
HARARE AFP — White Zimbabwean farmers are facing uncertainty about their future after the elapse of 45-day eviction notices. "Because of the contradictions, some farmers are a bit anxious about what the future is going to be...it's of great concern to us," Emily Crookes, spokeswoman for the white-run Commercial...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, contradiction, Government, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2007-02-03
Landis blames French test lab for doping sample inconsistencies
DOYLESTOWN, United States AFP — Tarnished Tour de France winner Floyd Landis blames his positive doping test on the French laboratory that examined his sample in comments made to a newspaper here Sunday. In a story posted on the website of the Intelligencer newspaper of suburban Philadelphia, Landis confirmed plans...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, contradiction, France, INTERNET
Research articles 2006-09-11
Short comes up big in satirical 'Fame Becomes Me'
NEW YORK -- In case you haven't been paying attention, pop culture has pretty much devolved into a contradiction in terms. Martin Short seems to grasp this, but for some reason, he's not angry about it. Were I in Short's shoes, with a three-decade resume as a multifaceted stage...
Tags: ascent, CAREER, celebrity, contradiction, Hilton Hotels Corp., obsession, TVs
Research articles 2006-08-22
RARE MILLER ON STAGE
Eliassian, Helen Forward 02-03-2006 The Jewish Theatre of the South pays tribute to playwright Arthur Miller, who died in February 2005, with a production of one of his last works, "The Ride Down Mount Morgan." The play focuses on the...
Tags: businessman, contradiction, Porsche AG
Research articles 2006-02-03
The inherent contradiction between the two modern notions of "hate speech" and "identity pride" showed up the other day in San Francisco, when a group of lesbian motorcycle enthusiasts persuaded the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to
The inherent contradiction between the two modern notions of "hate speech" and "identity pride" showed up the other day in San Francisco, when a group of lesbian motorcycle enthusiasts persuaded the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to award them rights to the phrase "Dykes on Bikes." The feds had twice...
Tags: contradiction, identity, motorcycle, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Research articles 2005-12-31
Hummer H2 SUT grabs its share of a unique market
Hummer, a small but highly visible division of General Motors Corp., has been on a new product spree of sorts. Recent announcements include the H2 SUT sport utility truck, our test vehicle, a new smaller H3, and a revision to the big daddy H1 Alpha. Most people who...
Tags: contradiction, General Motors Corp., Hummer, hydrogen, OnStar, XM Satellite Radio Inc.
Research articles 2005-08-08
What to do with the site in lower Manhattan where the World Trade Center stood?
What to do with the site in lower Manhattan where the World Trade Center stood? Current plans are for a memorial complex including an art gallery and an International Freedom Center. The gallery--it is called the Drawing Center--already exists nearby, and is to be relocated. Its current website boasts that...
Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, contradiction, INTERNET, Manhattan, World Trade Center
Research articles 2005-07-18
Debtors no longer taking it personally.
Jul 18, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) The outlook for the Australian economy is being clouded by contradictions between indicators. One further example is home lending, which is healthy despite a marked slowdown in the housing market. In May 2005,...
Tags: ABN AMRO, contradiction, equity, FINANCE, Investment
Research articles 2005-07-18
Islamic terrorism and English archbishops
NOT the least memorable of the images generated, directly or indirectly, by events on the Islamic terrorist scene in March 2004 appeared in a Friday supplement of The Times (2 April). It comprised the contorted or smirking faces of six of 'Britain's young Muslims' bawling jihadi slogans from behind a...
Tags: al-Qaeda, Britain, British Broadcasting Corp., contradiction, Government, Guardian, Leadership, terrorism, Williams
Research articles 2004-07-01
Deconstructing Bashevis; In Search of Singer's Last Words
Stavans, Ilan Forward 06-25-2004 Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring professor in Latin American and Latino culture at Amherst College. He edited the three-volume set of "Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories," as well as "Isaac Bashevis Singer: An Album," both published under...
Tags: America, American Library Association, contradiction, essay, fiction, Globalization, Israel, novel, photograph, Strategy
Research articles 2004-06-25
Blame game: the Democrats' search for 9/11 'contradictions'
IN the weeks since former White House counterterrorism official Richard Clarke began promoting his anti-Bush book, Against All Enemies, it has become commonplace for the president's critics to say there are "contradictions" or "inconsistencies" in the Bush administration's defense of its actions in the days leading up to the 9/11...
Tags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Bush, CIA, contradiction, game, Government, Iraq, president, terrorism, White House
Research articles 2004-05-03
U.S. Regulators Criticized for Contradictory Handling of Mad Cow News.
By Stephen Smith, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 25--Seven months ago, when a lone Canadian cow was stricken with mad cow disease, US agricultural authorities were so concerned they clamped a ban on all beef imports from the northern...
Tags: Boston Globe, contradiction, Government, hamburger, Manufacturing, regulator, Strategy
Research articles 2003-12-25
Literature, Art and the Pursuit of Decay in Twentieth-Century France.(Book Review)
By Timothy Mathews. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xi + 234. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. This is a book which lends itself uneasily to gloss or synopsis. For it is in the very detail of its analyses that its impact is to be...
Tags: contradiction, essay, synopsis, University of Cambridge
Research articles 2003-12-01
Emory Elliott, The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature.(Book Review)
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 198 pp., $22.00 paper. For many solicitous readers of Emory Elliott's prior reflections on the New England contribution to U.S. culture and literature (see: The Cambridge History of American Literature. Vol. I., Sacvan Bercovitch, ed., Cambridge University...
Tags: America, contradiction, MARKETING, scholar, Strategy, University of Cambridge
Research articles 2003-10-01
Muscling up the Micra
It may seem like the ultimate contradiction, but Nissan's cute little Micra model, left, is available from this week with an aggressive body kit. It includes side skirts, front and rear lower lip spoilers, wheel arch extensions and headlamp covers known as eyebrows. Available for both three and...
Tags: contradiction, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.
Research articles 2003-07-04
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