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From a let's-beat-Bush-At-All-Costs perspective, I hope Buchanan will rake in around 37 percent. The last few decades show that no incumbent can give up that much in New Hampshire and still go on to win in November--Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Lyndon Johnson (who actually quit the race when Eugene McCarthy bagged 40 percent in the Granite state) are recent examples...
Under now retired chairman Donald Petersen, Ford became the hot U.S. automaker of the 1980s. In A Better Idea (Houghton Mifflin; 270 pages; $24.95), Petersen says much of the secret lay in enlisting teams of workers to improve the quality of Ford cars. Teams created the Taurus, and are now developing an all new Mustang, due by the end of 1993. In flat but serviceable prose, Petersen outlines the steps Ford took to set up and use its teams. "The whole employee involvement process," he declares, "springs from asking all your workers the simple question, 'What do you think...
...experts and executives. In a spate of books with such titles as Love and Profit and A Great Place to Work, these experts are pulling in the horns and preaching a gospel of full worker participation in running companies. Such thinking has already won converts at the likes of Ford, Goodyear and General Electric. The books stress cooperation over conflict. "To compete in the marketplace, workers and management must collaborate," declares Charles Garfield, who describes his view in Second to None. "It is in these collaborations that human ingenuity and creativity are best realized...
Liam Thomas Aquinas Ford '91-'92 will turn in his thesis in two days, and thinks, therefore, that he will graduate. The Editors hope he finds a job that suits him. Like running the Libertarian Party...
These same quotas have, in turn, kept Japanese auto manufacturers from competing in the U.S. market with less-established manufacturers from other countries such as South Korea and Yugoslavia. Honda and Toyota, not just G.M., Chrysler and Ford, have thus been able to keep their prices artificially high. Where the money consumers have spent "protecting" these businesses might have gone, in the free market, is anyone's guess. In any case, it would have gone to other productive enterprises, or even into savings or investment...