As one train company boss told me recently: "In other countries, they tend to just shut lines entirely while they carry out the work.
Every shut line -- where hood and doors and trunk and fenders come together -- is dead even down to the millimeter.
Today, the Metro is in such a state that fixing it may require shutting whole lines for months at a time.
Mr. Niimi, the executive vice president for production, said that Toyota was discussing energy-saving measures with other automakers, like shutting production lines during the week and running them on weekends, when more electricity is available.
The crisis wasn't resolved until J.P. Morgan stepped in to impose order on the industry, by shutting unprofitable lines and consolidating the rest, and dictating territorial rights to keep competition at a minimum.
We have to shut down lines, so, taken together it's probably 300,000-400,000 barrels a day.
So, as the mini mills expanded their capacity to make rebar, the integrated mills shut those lines down, and, as they chopped off the lowest-margin part of the product lines, their gross-margin profitability improved".
Venerable old companies like Itochu Trading or the Sogo department store, chained to the concept of lifetime employment, were unwilling to shut unprofitable lines of business, lay off staff or do anything but hide their real estate losses.
Venerable old companies like the Itochu Trading company or the Sogo department store, chained to the concept of lifetime employment, were unwilling to shut unprofitable lines of business, lay off staff or do anything but hide their real estate losses.
Meanwhile, a landslip at Oxted in Surrey has shut the line between Oxted and Woldingham.
