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...long, grueling process, and each time you [enter a contest], it's a long shot," she says. "And each time you feel slightly foolish spending the money on the Xerox and the stamp...
Corporate sponsors including Apple Computer, Inc., Merck, Mobil Oil, Morgan Stanley, Xerox Corporation, Prudential and Union Carbide Corporation are backing Teach for America. Start-up costs for the teaching group will reach $2 million in its first year, the group stated...
Last week Xerox won recognition for its comeback when President Bush singled out the company's business products and systems division, which makes its copiers, as one of two winners of the 1989 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The awards, named for the Commerce Secretary who died in 1987, were , established by Congress to motivate U.S. companies. Given for the first time last year, they have already become a sought-after prize in corporate America. Collecting the other 1989 award: Milliken & Co., a leading textiles manufacturer based in Spartanburg, S.C. Bush, who has seized the quality banner to promote American...
Declaring that high quality in U.S. goods and services is a top national priority, the President maintained that companies like Xerox and Milliken are leading a comeback from the days when many American products were being shunned because of a well-deserved reputation for shoddiness. Said he: "No competitor gave them a tougher time than they gave themselves. Both of these manufacturing firms were well-established leaders in their markets, and yet both were being steadily squeezed out by the intensive foreign and domestic competition. And in the midst of this crisis, the men and women of these companies found...
...rules of the game will keep changing, and the standards will keep getting higher. Says Xerox Chairman Kearns: "We realize that we are in a race without a finish line. As we improve, so does our competition. Five years ago, we would have found that disheartening. Today we find it invigorating." That kind of ambition is essential, because U.S. manufacturers still have considerable catching up to do. If they are successful, the MADE IN THE U.S.A. label will once again stand for excellence, not just sentimental patriotism...