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...pointing the way to a revolution in manufacturing. The companies began a $70 billion capital spending program to build better cars and trucks. Detroit equipped itself with elaborate computerized devices to perform hundreds of tasks like precision welding and alignment of doors and fenders. Auto executives consulted with the gurus of manufacturing and quality: W. Edwards Deming, J.M. Juran and Philip B. Crosby, a Florida-based consultant whose 1979 book, Quality Is Free, sits on many Detroit desks...
...Feldstein has infuriated Regan, he has aroused equally intense ire at the White House. Not since Budget Director David Stockman was taken to the woodshed for revealing doubts about Reaganomics in the Atlantic Monthly in 1981 has the Administration been so embarrassed, and harassed, by one of its economic gurus. The President's aides accuse the economist of being disloyal and giving ammunition to the opposition during an election campaign. Says one staffer: "He's made the CEA a four-letter word around here." On several occasions, the White House has censored advance texts of Feldstein...
...college, one high school. Cable News Network is airing its 30-min. business report. With Mick Jagger and Joan Jett setting the tempo, MTV rocks all night. PBS has opera in German and soap opera in the Queen's English. In the free-for-all called cable access, gurus and do-gooders are proselytizing for churches without disciples, causes without effect. A raunchier access channel offers the spectacle of a young man tap dancing as he undresses to the theme from Star Wars. Click...
...Wall Street-Ole!" omits the fact that numbers can be manipulated to represent success or failure. I am not impressed with our economic gurus. They took forever to admit that our country had financial problems, and now, with the slightest "red flag waving," they thump themselves proudly on how all will be well...
...like Newton-John's Physical and Diana Ross's Work That Body scampered up the charts. Exercise records have broken out of the vanity-house ghetto: Mickey's Mousercise has sold more than 350,000 copies. New magazines like Fit and New Body are preaching an enlightened narcissism. Fitness gurus, from Richard Simmons to Kathy Smith to that rock-hard perennial Jack LaLanne, start the TV day with exhortations to slim down and tone up. At the movies, the new actresses are quirky and resourceful, and so are the characters they play. "The old image of a star actress," says...