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...giving the worker a greater sense of importance was not enough. A change in corporate philosophy was needed, the sort of disruptive and often expensive change that works only if the commitment starts at the top. In companies where impressive quality gains have been made -- Ford, Hewlett-Packard, 3M, Corning Glass, Apple, Motorola and Rubbermaid -- the chief executive lays down the rules and makes sure they are followed. 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...
...California-based Packard Foundation has awarded grants of $500,000 each to Daniel J. Jacob and Cumrun Vafa for research in their respective specialties of atmospherics and theoretical physics. The Packard grants are the largest in the nation given exclusively to junior faculty in the sciences...
...Packard Fellowship is one of two grantsawarded exclusively to junior university facultyin the U.S. The other is the Presidential YoungInvestigator award, which is sponsored by theNational Science Foundation...
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...will not have the workstation market all to itself. Last week a major competitor, Hewlett-Packard, said it had reached an agreement to buy workstation pioneer Apollo for $476 million. The merger will give Hewlett- Packard more than 30% of the workstation market, supplanting Sun (28%) as the top manufacturer. But the workstation market is expected to grow some 44% this year, to nearly $6 billion, leaving plenty of room for expansion. Says William Joy, Sun's vice president of research and development: "The action is on the desktop. That's where most of the people...