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Richard Kenney's The Evolution of the Flightless Bird, the winning volume in the 1983 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, was selected from among 650 entries in this annual competition. All of one species whose origin is the sonnet, Kenney's poems ring many changes through that form, reflecting, as they do, a personal evolution in the poet's life. "The Hours of the Day"--the first of four chapters--is a long meditative sequence set in Vermont; here the square-shaped poems become the crown glass windowpanes of the farmhouse itself. "First Poems" follows next, a group of eight...

What are the forces that are driving firms and industries to globalize their operations? This volume explores how specific industries have organized their global operations through case studies of seven manufacturing industries: garments and textiles, automobiles and auto parts, televisions, hard disk drives, flat panel displays, semiconductors, and personal computers. Based on long-term research sponsored by the Sloan Foundation, the chapters provide readers with a nuanced understanding of the complex matrix of factor costs, access to inimitable capabilities, and time-based pressures that...

The book presented here is the outcome of an interesting journey that began over 40 years ago with my full-time employment at Lowell Technological Institute. I had been a student here (1965-1969) earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Meteorology. Through a strange turn of events (covered elsewhere in this book), I became the LTI Diving coach in the Fall of 1972. In the summer of 1978, Athletic Director Dr. Jim Ciszek approached me and asked if I would be interested in assuming the role of "Sports Information Director" or "SID." This role expanded to what eventually became the role of NCAA...