Word: workmanship
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...Pride of Workmanship...
...Your [Oct. 11] story on NASA's report concerning Mercury contractors confirms my feelings regarding the "lack of satisfactory quality of workmanship" and general integrity displayed in many too many American-made products and services...
...wearing apparel, $2,500 for a car, $25,000 for a home, or $25 million for a Mercury shot, the product too often contains the same careless construction and careful avoidance of detail, quality and followup. There is more than quality of workmanship lacking-there is pride of workmanship...
...shift to fixed-price contracts alone could save 10? on each defense dollar, argues McNamara. In addition, the plan puts a premium on high quality workmanship and careful inspection procedures. The military officer watching each project will submit a top-secret report every six months evaluating the company's performance, and the report will figure heavily in whether a company gets future defense contracts...
...much delight in the sights and sounds of that city as did Vittore Carpaccio. He obviously loved Venice's busy canals, its processions and pageantry, its fairy-tale architecture-almost every aspect of the place, in fact, down to the brightness of its gondoliers' jerkins and the workmanship of a beautifully wrought bolt on a door. Last week Venice returned the compliment by opening in the Doge's Palace the biggest Carpaccio exhibition ever held (see color...