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...short run, Chung's obsession with quality can be costly. Last year, he delayed the launch of a new Sonata in Korea for two months while engineers cleaned up 50 minor defects. In 2003, he asked Lee, the senior R&D executive, to get rid of an annoying noise made by grinding gears in the transmissions of Kia Amanti sedans. Lee worried that he'd have to shut down production entirely to work on the problem. "I told him that we'd lose two months of sales," he recalls. "The chairman said: 'If it's for quality...
...What would you do to reinvigorate the sitcom? I'd get rid of the laugh track, 'cause the writers don't write as funny, the actors don't act as funny...
...only time I ever heard Prof. Weitzman talk about horse manure before was in the context of New York City drowning in it at the turn of the last century,” the student said. “People didn’t know how to get rid of that stuff back then...
From his dusty work yard in the northwest Massachusetts hamlet of Hancock (colonial, of course, incorporated in 1776), Babcock has mapped virtually every colonial barn standing, or collapsing, in New England. Racing against mildew and termites, he buys more barns than he can afford from farmers glad to be rid of debris. "It's bad business, but I don't know how to stop," he explains without remorse. "I'm barn rich, cash poor...
...touched off a wave of public protest and voluntary arrest in the U.S. that is far from being confined to Washington. While demonstrators have been taking to the streets of the capital, others across the country have sought to pressure state and local governments, universities and colleges to rid themselves of holdings that involve U.S. and foreign companies with interests in South Africa. Both houses of Congress have called for economic sanctions against Pretoria, and divestiture proposals have come before virtually every state legislature. "Many Americans knew nothing about apartheid before the demonstrations began," says Randall Robinson, executive director...