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...better than its rivals. That's no simple task, but Toyota has always been terrific at creating a sense of internal crisis even when times are good, persuading employees that the company will crash unless everyone, from the lowliest shopworker to the CEO, helps out to improve the bottom line. "There's a deep fear of complacency in Toyota," says Jeffrey Liker, an engineering professor at the University of Michigan...
...used as a punch line? Everybody was uncomfortable with the thing, and [exhales in mock seriousness] I guess it's my position, when I do come down here [to Los Angeles], to be completely devoid of humor. [All laugh] God knows, somebody's got to do it. But bottom line: I didn't think it was funny...
...found sheer cliffs, we found pockmarked holes like dimples on a golf ball. And we found these little red marks all over the rocks." Long's exhilaration came not from leaving the earth's surface but from going beneath it, on the first submarine exploration to the bottom of one of the world's biggest bodies of fresh water, Lake Superior...
...expedition sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that will continue until Aug. 20. Until now researchers have seldom viewed Superior at depths below 200 ft., generally the limit to which scuba divers descend. But using the Sea-Link, they have been able to plunge right to the bottom. The deepest point...
...might ask, Since when? Florida's 3 million seniors have a special reputation, fair or not, for excluding kids from their voting agendas as well as their condominium complexes. It's one reason the state, whose per capita income is in the nation's top half, ranks in the bottom 10 in per-pupil public-education spending. Nationally, America's elderly reap seven times as many federal dollars per capita as do children, who suffer twice the poverty rate. But with Florida's youth population growing at a faster rate than that of the elderly, many seniors are forging what...