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Quality is the main ingredient Petersen has in mind. While all the Big Three automakers have boosted the dependability of their cars, Ford has perhaps made the biggest issue of it. Known for turning out some inferior vehicles during its troubled years, Ford says it has increased the dependability of its autos 50% since 1980 by tightening its standards for parts suppliers and getting employees involved in decision making, among other techniques. Reliability will continue to be an important goal in Detroit, since the U.S. auto industry's quality levels still lag behind Japan's. According to the California consulting...
QUAD HOUSING IS inferior because people have to be forced to live there. And until people want to live there--that is, select it as their first choice house--inferior it will remain. This is not to say that people are not happy with the Quad or that it cannot be a good place to live. But few would choose to live there without the not-too-invisible hand of the housing lottery...
...Housing is a matter of justice rather than charity," Guernsey said. "We so frequently view people on the streets as being somehow morally inferior rather than remembering we could, in fact, wind up on the streets ourselves...
Loss of the Copper-7 has upset many family-planning experts. "In the past, inferior products have been pulled off the market," notes Dr. Louise Tyrer of Planned Parenthood. "Now superior products are being abandoned because of high insurance costs." The IUD has a failure rate of only 5% in the first year of use, she points out, in contrast to 19% for the diaphragm, l7% to 24% for sponges, 18% for spermicidal foams and jellies and 10% for condoms. But, observes Dr. Bruce Stadel of the National Institutes of Health, "a pharmaceutical company would have to be altruistic...
Like many women, Rosenberg admits to great ambivalence on the issue. "If women as a group are allowed special benefits, you open up the group to charges that it is inferior. But if we deny all differences, as the women's movement has so often done, you deflect attention from the disadvantages women labor under." Either way, she says, women can lose: "I'm a historian, and I know the disadvantages of both sides...