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50 Ways to Leave your Lover: Keep Failing Til the Last Thing You Try Is Successful

Mills Scofield

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. By the end of 2010, we have a prototype adaptation of our Whizard trimmer for tissue processing operating with the original customer, but we know that the tool is unsatisfactory in many ways.

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What’s Wrong with the FAA’s New Drone Rules

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. In fact, the FAA had originally promised the rules by 2011, but it proceeded to miss every deadline it set for itself , as well as those established by Congress. Both the U.K.

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Should Companies Care If Hurricane Sandy Was "Caused" By Climate Change?

Harvard Business Review

As the VP of global risk management told me, the most expensive events in company history in every weather category (flood, earthquake, hail, wind, etc.) After making $50 million in insurance claims in 2011 alone, the company's insurance rates will certainly rise. occurred in the last few years.

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We're Running Out of Resources, and It's Going to Be OK

Harvard Business Review

The problem cuts much deeper than that; it's systemic and it's global. The McKinsey Global Institute reports that price volatility has hit a high , second only to the energy crisis of the 1970s. The domestic remanufacturing industry grew by 15% between 2009 and 2011 to "at least $43.0 billion, supporting 180,000 full-time U.S.

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Grassroots Leadership through Social Power

Coaching Tip

Social might is now moving toward your community, state, nation as well as global corporations. But overall these changes suggest a bright future for business and society globally. and Canada and more than 7 million vehicles a year traverse the Ambassador bridge, according to the Public Border Operators Assn.

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18 of the Top 20 Tech Companies Are in the Western U.S. and Eastern China. Can Anywhere Else Catch Up?

Harvard Business Review

But as the digital revolution continues to spark widespread disruption in other industries — automotive, financial services, health care, and retail — who will win? In many cases, as with Skype, the size of the European operation shrank after the acquisition. Now, the U.S.