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...Jack E. White Washington: Dan Goodgame, Ann Blackman, Margaret Carlson, James Carney, Michael Duffy, Julie Johnson, J.F.O. McAllister, Jay Peterzell, Suneel Ratan, Elaine Shannon, Dick Thompson, Adam Zagorin, Melissa August New York: Janice C. Simpson, Edward Barnes, John F. Dickerson Boston: Sam Allis Chicago: Jon D. Hull, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: William McWhirter Atlanta: Michael Riley Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, Jeffrey Ressner, James Willwerth, Patrick E. Cole San Francisco: David S. Jackson London: Barry Hillenbrand Paris: Thomas A. Sancton, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Jay Branegan Bonn: James O. Jackson Central Europe: James...
...production line. During World War II Deming successfully ; applied his approach to the making of airplane parts. Ignored by postwar American industry, the irascible Deming took his gospel to Japan in 1950, where it was embraced. His ideas finally took root in the U.S. in the 1980s, when the Detroit auto industry asked for his help in competing with the very Japanese firms he had inspired...
...Detroit may boast about its increasing share of the U.S. auto market, but the real benefits will come when exports increase. American automakers need to learn one more lesson from the Japanese: how to build from the ground up a car tailored to the needs of the world's other great markets and bring home the bacon...
...Europeans and Japanese are still miles ahead of Detroit in technology, aesthetics and ergonomics. Most of the cars coming out of Detroit look like cheap knock-offs of better-made foreign models. The bottom line is that the Big Three still can't build good cars. They don't have to; they'll always have the customer with the buy-American mentality to fall back...
...year later, in 2003, the idea transformed into the foundation of a company he started called SensiTile, which is based in Detroit. In essence, SensiTile is a concept that gives concrete and plastic tiles a way to become interactive with touch, movement, light and shadow, which in turn dictate changes in the tile's color. "I have a little bit of trouble explaining it," says Lath, 31, who is originally from India but came to the U.S. to study electrical engineering at Arizona State University in 1993. "It's a very direct and intuitive phenomenon that has to be experienced...