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...fringe benefits, tend to take less pride in their jobs than their elders. American Motors had to recall 750 cars over the past year because workers carelessly installed the wrong alternators, which did not generate enough current to keep the batteries fully charged under heavy loads. To overcome lax workmanship on the production line, G.M.'s Buick Division not long ago outfitted torque wrenches with horns that sound off whenever workers fail to fasten nuts and bolts tightly enough. Quality control is becoming an increasingly big headache on Mondays and Fridays, when high absenteeism forces management to rely heavily...
...them took advantage of Peking's inattention to indulge in economic "crimes" of one sort or another, such as expanding their private plots at the expense of commune lands, or chop ping down state-owned timber, or with holding some grain from the government. To end this lax state of affairs, the regime has now sent thousands of "Mao Tse-tung's Thought Propaganda Teams" into the countryside. Kwangtung province alone has mobilized 50,000 industrial workers and 280,000 peasants for the heroic propaganda and purification push, or, as Peking labels it, the "purification of class ranks...
...caused when he said that seeing one redwood was to see them all. Hickel also remarked that industries might be scared away if the Interior Department's regulations against water pollution were set too high. This immediately evoked fears among conservationists that, as Interior Secretary, Hickel would be lax in enforcing standards that they already consider scandalously inadequate...
...Gard Wiggins, vice-president of the University, said yesterday that the University used to be more lax about the use of its name, but has become stricter in recent years. He assured, however, that no action is contemplated against the many firms in the Harvard Square area using Harvard's name...
Since the rules for getting on welfare are so lax, the people who really need welfare get their share diluted; those who are most needy are the real victims...