Word: maker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nothing runs like a Deere," goes the slogan of the world's largest maker of farm equipment. These days, industrial engineers are changing that to "Nothing runs like a Deere factory." In its new plant on the northeast edge of Waterloo, Iowa, Deere is using computer-controlled assembly techniques to turn out a score of tractor models, bearing as many as 3,000 options, without costly plant shutdowns for retooling. The factory seems to be making a difference in Deere's profits. While sales rose slightly because of a strengthening farm economy, earnings during the last three months...
...Crosby left his $200,000-a-year job at ITT to start his own firm, which now has more than 100 employees and projected revenues of $22 million for 1984. One of his early clients was Mostek, a Texas-based microchip maker. The firm came to Crosby after it started losing its market to Japanese electronics firms because they were turning out superior chips. Mostek sent 115 of its managers to Crosby seminars and launched a campaign exhorting workers to "Do It Right the First Time." Result: Mostek cut costs by some $40 million annually. Says Quality Director Robert Donnelly...
...risky for a viewer to sweep too many thematic generalizations into this dusty pile of celluloid. Indeed, a cynic would declare that the only thing this quintet has in common is Hitchcock's greed. The film maker always had an acute eye for commerce. He worked in an economically reliable genre with the industry's biggest stars. He would agree to dump a longtime collaborator like Composer Bernard Herrmann (who worked on eight Hitchcock films from 1955 to 1964) if the studio applied pressure. And when asked why he withheld these five films from theaters...
Like the Trendy and the Statement Maker, the Dress-for-Success-er undercuts her personal image through a misuse of fashion. The careerist who feels insecure about her prospects within a man's world, and depends on a "Successful Person's" wardrobe to foster respectability, mocks her own professionalism. Her appearances at even minor occasions (say, a career seminar and Kennedy school panel discussions) with a surgically precise manicure; anchorwoman-perfect makeup; and topiaried coiffure, only magnify her self-consciousness. The incongruity between the Dress-for-Success-er's actual and contrived selves transforms her into a caricature...
...Trendy, Statement Maker, and Dress-for-Success-er all belie the expressive significance of fashion, and fall short of possessing genuine style, because they are working from the outside in. It is paradoxical that so many clotheshorses who cherish the notion of fashion as individual "signature" execute forgeries on a regular basis, aping styles without regard to their consonance with personal physique and temperment...