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...information quickly and impose his will on the organization. After years managing the after-sales service operation, he concluded that quality problems were the crux of the company's ills. Suh Byung Kee, Hyundai's president, recalls Chung bursting into his office five years ago and saying: "Quality is crucial to our survival. We have to get it right no matter what the cost...
...weaker dollar, Hyundai must persuade customers to pay more so that profits keep growing. Last year, Hyundai's earnings edged up a mere 2%, while sales grew 10%. Zayong Koo, an auto analyst at Lehman Bros. in Seoul, says it could take several years before Hyundai achieves this crucial pricing power: "They need to show a track record of good-quality cars in order for them to take that next step and raise pricing...
...death penalty; 69% favor a constitutional amendment permitting prayer in the classroom. The general mood of the nation may have grown more conservative in the '80s but, evidently, activists on neither the right nor the left have had much success in altering American thought on these crucial matters of our time. --By Jacob V. Lamar...
...mujahedin spokesman in Pakistan claimed that the attackers blew up ammunition dumps, aviation-fuel tanks, barracks where Soviet flight crews and traffic controllers slept, and water tanks, crucial in drought-stricken Kabul. One Western military analyst observed that the raid showed both that "the iron discipline of the mujahedin has not been broken" and that the CIA weapons pipeline to the rebels is improving. MALAYSIA Where Dadah Means Death...
...profile that reporters blackly joked that the strike never would have happened if Kuhn had been alive. Like most past baseball commissioners, Kuhn was widely regarded as the owners' man, hired to do their bidding. Ueberroth struck a more independent stance, even siding with the players on the crucial issue of the salary cap. He argued that the free market should set players' salaries...