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...reducing cycle time by eliminating waste. Six Sigma was first used on a wide scale by Motorola in the 1980s as an approach to improving quality through statistical measurements and benchmarking, Evans explains. Six Sigma entered the U.S. business lexicon in a big way in the 1990s when CEO Jack Welch embraced it at General Electric...
...walk from the beginning of the 20th century, stepping safely from decade to decade, and find one writer after another anointed as the Voice. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, J.D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Jay McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis ... but once you get to Douglas Coupland (who published Generation X in 1991), the last novelist who on a moonless night could be taken for the V.O.A.G., the trail goes cold. Not quite abruptly--for a few twinkly, magical minutes interest swirled around Wallace, and Eggers (more for his memoir than his fiction), and Chuck Palahniuk--but, ultimately...
Undead pirates aside, Captain Jack faces a new peril in the sequel, Dead Man's Chest, out July 7: living up to audience expectations after the original...
...DIED. Moose, 16, Jack Russell terrier who played the watchful, knowing and often mischievous house pet Eddie, Frasier Crane's b?te noire on TV's long-running, Emmy Award-winning comedy Frasier; in Los Angeles. Before retiring from films six years ago, Moose played the title role as an older pup in the 2000 film My Dog Skip...
...Stock Exchange. That failed, but the bank's ability to turn tired old assets into lucrative investment vehicles has become so well known in financial circles that some have dubbed deals like the proposed PCCW acquisition "Macquisitions." Macquarie "has developed a lot of intellectual capital in this area," says Jack Chemello, an investment analyst with BT Funds Management. "They are way ahead of their competitors...