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...people know are really interested but they haven't had the time," said B.U. junior Carl H. Ford. "Every one's just too busy with studying to really tune into this...
...opportunity, Harvard's Mason Ford was, in the words of Co-Captain John Marshall, "mauled" in the act of shooting by a swarming Tigers defense...
...auto market from 19.6% in 1980 to 27.7% last year, or 2.7 million vehicles. When Chrysler dropped its U.S.-made Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon models this year, the company began relying strictly on Japanese-built vehicles to fill out the small-car category of its product line. Ford was able to stay in the market only by basing its new Escort and Mercury Tracer cars on a Mazda prototype and by adopting that company's manufacturing technology...
...with the success of the first Honda plant in Marysville, Ohio, where American workers build Accords whose quality rivals or exceeds the same cars built in Japanese plants. Following the example of Toyota chairman Eiji Toyoda, Japanese companies in the 1960s and 1970s effectively reworked Henry Ford's theories, replacing his intensely hierarchical assembly-line system with a more flexible team-based arrangement. Japan's efforts have been fruitful. In the past decade the Japanese have built 11 plants in the U.S. and Canada with the capacity to make 2.6 million cars a year...
...American industry will be unambiguous. The American work force, often and unfairly maligned as the cause of U.S. competitive woes over the past two decades, can compete with anyone if managed intelligently. GM's smaller U.S. rivals have already adopted some of the progressive techniques employed at Saturn. Ford, which is using Japanese-style team systems at many of its plants, has already improved so much that its efficiency matches that of the average Japanese plant in Japan. Chrysler's best factory, in Sterling Heights, Mich., is nearly as efficient as the newest Japanese plants and matches the average Japanese...