They may not look inspiring, but deep in the recesses of their brains they have these little ideas--a fast-food restaurant concept no one has ever anticipated, an assembly-line innovation that can lower production costs by 50%, a retirement-plan wrinkle to save everyone's 401(k)--and, someday, assuming they can find their toothbrushes amid the stash of moisturizing-cream bottles in their travel bags, they are going to realize their dreams.

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That data will help it plan incentives and change production schedules--or even future models.

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They too want to reopen some of their closed mines to look for low-grade ore, and plan to expand production through joint ventures with international players.

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The initial phase of the project contract between Evatran and Syncroness involves a three-week session to produce a nine-month plan to bring Plugless Power up to full production ability by 4Q 2010.

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Davis leaned on Daly in developing a restructuring plan announced in March 2001--an ambitious effort to trim production without decreasing capacity.

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"Our plan is to continue production of the 787 and to continue the development of the wide-body airplanes, " he added.

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Problem: Toyota didn't plan enough all-wheel-drive minivans for sunny southern California and couldn't bump up production fast enough.

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