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...quality circles at its Horn Lake, Miss., plant. Says Robert Scott, Dover's quality-circle coordinator: "It has done so many good things you can't even count them. I suppose if it were to be put in dollar terms, we have had a $12 to $15 payback on each dollar invested in the program." One quality circle suggested a way to install elevators in shafts more economically; the improvement will save Dover $2.5 million over the next five years. Westinghouse Electric Corp., with more than 2,000 quality circles, estimates that they helped boost the company...
Bennington will in effect receive an interest free loan in the form of payments for the campus from the alumni. The subsequent lease payments will be akin to an extended payback of the initial loan...
Although the Wall Street Journal described the payback rescheduling as "a major international rescue operation," the move actually had little to do with benevolence. For its role in the "rescue," the U.S. got an agreement from Mexico to quadruple exports to America by next summer. Mexico has also agreed to disregard future oil price guidelines drafted by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The U.S. will buy Mexican oil for between $25 and $28 a barrel, which undercuts the OPEC price of $34 a barrel...
...team could run up a small deficit every year. The team found out it had to pay back $3000 per year. In addition, the combined budget for the men and women was reduced from $17,000 to 9600, which only translates to a $6600 outlay because of the payback. All but $600 of this goes to the Pat's Peak program...
...alternate types of energy, Goodwin says solar energy is impractical in the Boston area climate. "Payback is in the 20 year range," he says. Goodwin adds Harvard looking into solar energy when building the new athletic complex...