Word: workmanship
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...price and size. Violating this rule all but finished the British Sunbeam Rapier and Austin, cut Hillman's U.S. sales by 76%. With the solitary exception of France's $2,250 middle-sized Peugeot-which is holding its own because of its reputation for high-quality workmanship-the successful imports are those that sell below the $1,800 bottom price of Detroit's compacts or those specifically designed for the luxury and sports-car markets...
...Alan Shepard on his suborbital flight. Inside the building glittered the American Rocket Society's "Space Flight Report to the Nation"-an astonishing exhibition of the phony and the competent, the trivial and the magnificent. Some of the objects on exhibit were miracles of deft design and precision workmanship. Others were not working so well. (A computer kept typing petulantly: "I can't see a thing without my glasses.") Still others would probably never work at all. Mused an engineer about a crude device for exploring the moon: "It's wonderful what a kid can do with...
Jaguar's greatest competitive edge comes from combining mass-production methods with a high standard of workmanship. Each car is checked 47 times during its production. Sir William prowls the plant each workday for at least an hour, often singles out one car for a minute personal inspection. He has turned cars back for no greater fault than a slight wrinkle in the leather upholstery. To reduce costly model changeovers, he aims for car designs that will not be quickly dated, makes certain a car is engineered to last...
...ritual vessels. The intricate decoration not only warded off evil but provided a gateway for the artist's imagination. Fantastic animals, ogres' heads, symbols of the yang and yin, and finally the human figure, all made their appearance, and the bronzes themselves were never surpassed in the workmanship of later artisans...
...least holding its own. Russian workmanship has disillusioned many Afghans, e.g., the surfacing on Kabul's streets proved so shoddy that the Afghans had to redo them all. In contrast, the U.S. has made a big effort in the education field and seen it pay off. Some $14.8 million has been spent on school building and scholarships; 460 bright Afghan students have been sent...