Word: line
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Says Rubbermaid Chairman Stanley Gault: "Everyone has to know that shoddy work will not be tolerated. Our customers are not there to field-test our products." At Apple, says Chairman John Sculley, "quality is a religion. Anybody on the plant floor has the authority to shut down the entire line. And it happens...
...Apple, even the products help monitor quality. On the Macintosh assembly line, the computers run diagnostic checks on themselves...
...rules of the game will keep changing, and the standards will keep getting higher. Says Xerox Chairman Kearns: "We realize that we are in a race without a finish line. As we improve, so does our competition. Five years ago, we would have found that disheartening. Today we find it invigorating." That kind of ambition is essential, because U.S. manufacturers still have considerable catching up to do. If they are successful, the MADE IN THE U.S.A. label will once again stand for excellence, not just sentimental patriotism...
...most Colombian journalists simply shoulder the risk. Says Enrique Santos Calderon, an El Tiempo columnist and Sunday editor who spent several months in self-imposed exile following a bombing at his home, then returned to his outspoken ways: "We journalists aren't soldiers, but we have become the first line of defense...
Ortega's orchestration of their meeting and his stunning announcement about ending the Nicaraguan cease-fire brought a flare of public anger from Bush the following day. "It was instantly, gratuitously offensive, and I felt I had to draw the line," said Bush last week. "Ortega abused the hospitality of the other nations. He showed himself as a small person...