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...joined the half of our group that worked on the clinic project, adding a 1400 square foot addition to a health center that offered low-cost medical care to poor residents. When we arrived, all that stood on the site was a ring of cinder blocks surrounding a sea of mud. When we left, the floor and walls were built and the roof was half completed...
...million in the 1980s and was transformed from a sleepy Navy town to a booming metropolis. It became second only to Los Angeles in the West and sixth in the country, ahead of both Detroit and Dallas. Its industry diversified into high-tech research as well as low-cost maquiladoras manufacturing across the border in Mexico. Unemployment, at 3.9%, came to stand well under the national rate...
...more insidious element was Chrysler's own success selling K-cars, minivans and Jeeps in the 1980s, which brought the company huge profits. "We became a little too rich and fat doing things that were not germane to the basic thrust of the company, which is to become the low-cost, highest-quality producer," says Iacocca...
...range bombers and advanced fighters out of Guam. Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew has offered to accept some air units from Clark in his country. Subic's facilities, on the other hand, cannot readily be replaced. They include extensive machine shops that maintain the U.S. fleet with low-cost labor unavailable at alternative sites in Singapore or Japan...
...prescription drugs. Pharmaceutical firms may sell these so-called generic drugs only after the brand name has lost its patent protection. The 1984 law streamlined the FDA approval process for generic drugs, reducing the time from an average of three years to a few months. Manufacturer sales of the low-cost drugs thereupon leaped from $3.5 billion in 1984 to $7 billion...