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...more rivals close in, the more disciplined Toyota seems to become. Since the Camry started slipping in the quality scores, managers have drilled into the consumer surveys, reading customer comments to fix peeves as minute as the sound of the trunk latch. As for eliminating waste, says Gary Convis, president of the Georgetown plant, "we're never satisfied." Convis says Toyota has cut the delivery time for custom models from 10 weeks to 10 days, and that his facility has reduced some manufacturing costs by as much as 70%. A group of assembly workers from the plant went...
...International Tin Council, a cartel made up of 22 leading tin-producing and-consuming nations, found itself short of cash to finance its operation. While most commodity markets are vulnerable to volatile price swings, tin prices have been controlled by the London-based I.T.C. The cartel attempted to fix both the world supply and the price of tin, measures once considered beneficial to consumers of the metal as well as producers. It assigned production quotas to members and then bought up surplus tin whenever international prices fell below a certain level. The surplus metal was then gradually sold off during...
...breakdown of revenues, the Register and the Times's Orange County edition each should make about $25 million in profits this year. Ad-rich weekday editions of both papers regularly run over 200 pages, while the Sunday issues could crush a Chihuahua. For human beings who crave a daily fix of newsprint, however, the competition between the Register and the Times is good news indeed. "I feel really lucky to be here," says Trotter. "It's a damn fine place to be a newspaper reader." --By James Kelly. Reported by Dan Goodgame/Los Angeles
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...Wolfe's The Right Stuff. Played by Sam Shepard in the movie, Yeager inspired the film's strongest image: the sooty phoenix emerging from the desert after bailing out of his burning plane. Now 62, the real Yeager stars in auto-parts commercials as a persuasive Mr. Fix...