Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...find the new heartland of automaking in the U.S., just head south from Detroit on Interstate 75. As it courses through Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, I-75 follows a corridor that has served as fertile ground for so-called greenfield factories, built from scratch for high productivity. This is where GM put its new Saturn plant, but most of the new factories along I-75 are Japanese transplants...
...often must endure a wait of as much as a year. Like all of Hermes' leather goods, the bags are saddle stitched by hand and finished off in melted beeswax in the workshops over its store on the Rue du Faubourg-St.-Honore. Each bag is made from scratch, one by one, by a team of two workers who stamp their insignia inside. If the bag needs repair, even 10 years after it is sold in Singapore or Seattle, it is shipped back to the original craftsmen...
...Mamas and the Papas singers John and Michelle Phillips, has zoomed to No. 2 on this week's Billboard chart. Another platinum seller is Technotronic's Pump Up the Jam. The label's fast dance to the top is especially impressive for a company that has started from scratch by nurturing new artists...
...states, reports that earnings have grown 72% in the past year, from $5.1 million to $8.8 million, while revenues are up 15%, to $333 million. Chairman Alan Rosskamm attributes his company's new growth to a renewed interest in puttering around the house and making things from scratch. Sales at K mart were up 16%, to $7 billion, during the first quarter...
...just about to scratch TIME off my list when I received your note. Anyhow, here is the payment for my subscription. Show the boss that you earned your salt!" (Big smile...