Cincinnati Children's is a rare case in the U.S. health care system of what happens when factory-style operations management conquers the improvisational and often sloppy delivery of care in hospitals.

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Ford last week announced a North American-style turnaround plan for its European operations, including the closure of three facilities and the elimination of 6, 200 jobs, or 13 percent of its European workforce.

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The style with which it established its European operations, with a lavish head count and high editorial costs, was indicative of the confidence felt by many new economy firms.

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Ford Motor today laid out a North American-style turnaround plan for its money-losing European operations, including the closure of three facilities and the elimination of 6, 200 jobs, or 13 percent of its European workforce.

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By the same token, a Mossad source says that cloak-and-dagger operations still have their uses, even though ultra-modern electronic and biometric skills, used with surprising efficiency (in Israeli eyes) by Dubai's police, make such operations, involving wigged disguises and old-style skulduggery, harder to pull off.

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To overcome the problem of backward-compatibility, modern x86 chips such as the Pentium are able to take x86-style instructions from old software and split them up into several smaller micro-operations which lend themselves better to performance-enhancing trickery.

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Duke says Mr. Johnson's management style clashed with its culture and he failed to resolve problems at Progress's nuclear operations, among other issues.

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