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Late last year, AK Steel became the first U.S. steelmaker to attain certification under a new international standard for quality management in the production of automotive-grade steel sheet products. The new certification is called the ISO/TS 16949:2002 Quality Management System. "It is a new and stringent quality standard designed to ......

HEADNOTE Agencies and OTS provide similar sets of best practices The Office of Thrift Supervision departed from a nearly complete interagency effort and issued separate final guidance on overdraft protection programs for savings associations in February. The guidance, including 18 best practices, is intended to assist OTS-regulated institutions with "the ......

IMAGE ILLUSTRATION 1 During August 2005, the International Association of Commercial Administrators (IACA) held a special "UCC Summit" meeting to address lingering UCC Revised Article 9 (RA9) search and filing issues. IACA is composed of the tiling officers responsible for maintaining each state's central UCC index. Twenty-eight jurisdictions were represented ......

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As mortgage revenues and profitability have dropped over the past year industry-wide, how are lenders maximizing their margins to maintain financial strength and take care of shareholders? [??] Across the industry, the retail executives and managers I talked to are laser-focused on the same three management competencies: driving up profitability ......

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When you ask a third-party fleet management company to come and look at your fleet, do you know what methods they are actually using to examine your operations? There is an assumption that they must be taking a rigorous and scientific approach--but the reality is often all too different. At ......