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Severe Drought Has U.S. West Fearing Worst

Talking Troubled Turkey

probably because most countries placed restrictions on cross-border capital flows, so that international borrowing and lending were limited.

a bigger version of the same story unfolded in Asia: Huge money inflows followed by a sudden stop and economic implosion.

Ukraine Is Caught in a Tug of War

A Mafia Legacy Taints the Earth in Southern Italy

Camorra

One environmental group estimates that 10 million tons of toxic garbage has been illegally buried here since the early 1990s, earning billions of dollars for the mafia even as toxic substances leached into the soil and the water table.

Interactive: Locating American Manufacturing

Former ECB chief blames governments for euro-crisis

But the 71-year-old French banker said he had warned EU governments of growing economic divergences in the euro area as far back as 2005 and that he had criticised member states, notably France and Germany, for ignoring the deficit and debt rules which underpin the common currency.

Trichet noted that the ECB intervened on bond markets and bought up Greek debt as early as May 2010, when he was still chief and when the first-ever EU bailout was still being drafted. It interevened again in 2011 to buy Italian and Spanish debt when investors started to bet against the larger euro-states.

What Drives Success?

Both Bowman and Calvaruso knew something about “lean” manufacturing techniques—the style of factory management invented by Toyota whereby everyone has a say in critiquing and improving the way work gets done, with a focus on eliminating waste. Lean management is not a new concept, but outside of car making, it hasn’t caught on widely in the United States. It requires an open, collegial, and relentlessly self-critical mind-set among workers and bosses alike—a mind-set that is hard to create and sustain.

Levi Strauss used to have more than 60 domestic blue-jeans plants; today it contracts out work to 16 and owns none, and it’s hard to imagine mass-market clothing factories ever coming back in significant numbers—the work is too basic.

If the people who design dishwashers sit at their desks in one building, and the people who sell them to retailers and consumers sit at their desks in another building, and the people who make the dishwashers are in a different country and speak a different language—you never realize that the four screws should disappear, let alone come up with a way they can.

Mr. China Comes to America

The Insourcing Boom

But in 2011, Appliance Park employed not even a tenth of the people it did in its heyday.

By 1955, Appliance Park employed 16,000 workers. By the 1960s, the sixth building had been built, the union workforce was turning out 60,000 appliances a week,

Beijing’s Bad Air Would Be Step Up for Smoggy Delhi

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