Industries
epub |eng | 2009-07-17 | Author:Gail A. Eisnitz [Eisnitz, Gail A.]

"Streamlined Inspection didn't formally affect line speeds," said GAP's Tom Devine. "Rather, at these plants inspectors were stripped of their ability to detect conditions that would justify stopping the line." ...
( Category: Agriculture March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:Kelsey Timmerman [Timmerman, Kelsey]

It’s 5 PM, and the workers stream out of the space between the retractable gate and the guard building in front of the factory. The majority of them cross the ...
( Category: Fashion & Textile March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-07 | Author:Arthur Herman [Herman, Arthur]

Unlike Knudsen, Donald Nelson was no industrial production man. He was a chemical engineer, with a degree from the University of Missouri—a handy degree when later he had to look ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Mark Pendergrast [Pendergrast, Mark]

THE ARAB BOYCOTT BLUES That same year, Paul Austin convinced Woodruff that things could go better for Coke behind the Iron Curtain as well as in the drive-ins and skating ...
( Category: Hospitality, Travel & Tourism March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-25 | Author:Michael Moss [Moss, Michael]

For a brief moment, when production costs were outstripping revenue, it looked like Philip Morris had made a bad bet on the Lunchables. Right after Hamish Maxwell signed off on ...
( Category: Hospitality, Travel & Tourism March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-01 | Author:Bryan Burrough & John Helyar [Burrough, Bryan & Helyar, John]

An hour after Kravis lofted his $125 million offer, Dick Beattie was on the phone to Bob Millard at Shearson. “Have you heard about our offer?” Beattie wondered. Millard passed ...
( Category: Consolidation & Merger March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:Beahm, George [Beahm, George]

What’s really interesting is if you look at the reason that the iPod exists and that Apple’s in that marketplace, it’s because these really great Japanese consumer electronic companies who ...
( Category: Encyclopedias & Subject Guides March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-06-17 | Author:Stacy Perman [Perman, Stacy]

The new decade was off to a splendid start. For Rich, it appeared that his business success was now matched by success in his personal life. Two months before his ...
( Category: Business March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-01 | Author:Zehme, Bill [Zehme, Bill]

“In a tuxedo, I’m a star,” Dean always said. “In regular clothes, I’m nobody.” From the album liner notes to The Main Event, 1974: “There is no better Sinatra than ...
( Category: Pop March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-08 | Author:Michael Caine [Caine, Michael]

VOICE, SOUND, LIGHTING, MOVEMENT Voice and Sound However your voice sounds, use it. It's yours and there's no reason why the character you play shouldn't sound like you. You might ...
( Category: Acting & Auditioning March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Donald S. Passman [Passman, Donald S.]

As you can see, since you promised the record company that outside songs wouldn’t cost more than 75% of 9.1¢, the excess comes out of your mechanicals on the other ...
( Category: Music March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Vaclav Smil [Smil, Vaclav]

This new wealth rapidly spilled into excessive consumption, and two items became icons of this excess. In 1992, American Motors General began retailing a civilian version of a high-mobility, multipurpose ...
( Category: Industrial Relations March 26,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-02-03 | Author:Mafi, Tahereh [Mafi, Tahereh]

THIRTY-THREE “I have to leave in seven minutes.” Warner and I are both fully dressed, talking to each other like perfect acquaintances; like last night never happened. Delalieu brought us ...
( Category: Romance March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Charlie Higson

36 Just as DogNut and his crew were heading off back to the museum, another group of kids were setting off on their own expedition, a mile away to the ...
( Category: Spine-Chilling Horror March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Charles Seife

A close election is the ideal breeding ground for proofiness of all kinds. When lawyers declared that the fluctuating vote totals in the Minnesota election were “statistically dubious”—implying that they ...
( Category: Logic March 25,2014 )