China is a great manufacturing center, but it's actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that comes from the surrounding industrial - more advanced industrial centers - Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singa...
I'd like that translated if I may. British Prime Minster Harold Macmillan on Nikita Khruschev's shoe banging at the UN General Assembly on 29th September 1960
In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 194...
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
Of course what is talked about in the U.N. General Assembly is very important. Officials, the leaders of nations, appear there to speak of the most important topics - what they perceive to be the most important topics.
Being an Arab leader has its rewards: the suite at the Waldorf-Astoria during the United Nations General Assembly, travel in your own plane, plenty of cash, even job security - whether kings, sheiks or presidents, with or without elections, most serv...
The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be...
In my view, while the single neuron is the basic anatomical and information processing-signaling unit of the brain, it is not capable of generating behaviors and, ultimately, thinking. Instead, the true functional unit of the central nervous system i...
The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.
Honda opened its first assembly line in Lincoln in November 2001.
Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line.
I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.
It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.
A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They were cranking out 10 songs a day in that studio, or more.
Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.
Part of the reward of entrepreneurship lies in having the courage to believe in yourself and take action.
I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.
When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.
Every year, the United Nations General Assembly votes on a resolution entitled 'Peaceful resolution of the Palestine conflict.' Every year, the vote is the same. The whole world on one side - the whole world on one side - and on the other side, the U...
If you have felt any ounce of fear, insecurity, and uncertainty during your work day, then you might be an entrepreneur.
It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.
