Word: workmanship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bringing out their new styles. "Being first is now much more important than having quality in much of merchandising," says Carl Livingston Jr., president of Livingston Bros, specialty shops in San Francisco. A manufacturer caught in the revolving door of fashion often has to settle for fabrics and workmanship that he would otherwise reject. Because of rising labor costs, more garments are being put together piece by piece on assembly lines, and fewer are hand sewn. Says Designer Anne Klein: "When a worker works on only one section of the garment and not from the beginning...
...allay motorists' fears, but it hardly answers the question of how the industry manages to produce cars with such defects as engines that twist loose and wheel-axle assemblies that come off. Automakers' explanations are anything but reassuring. They maintain that such flaws result not from sloppy workmanship or careless quality control but bad engineering decisions. In effect, the faults are designed into the cars-unintentionally to be sure -by engineers making the wrong compromises between safety, cost and speed considerations. In the current case, Ford redesigned its 1972 Torinos and Montegos, making them heavier for the sake...
...areas of large cities. He blamed "speculators and fast-buck artists" but accepted some of the blame himself for the failure of the FHA, which his department supervises, to combat them. Said he: "I am angered and determined to eliminate incompetence, conflict of interest, favoritism, graft, bribes, fraud, shoddy workmanship and profiteering...
...essential charges, finding Dowdy guilty on all eight counts. The Justice Department pictured Cohen as a slick operator from Baltimore whose Monarch Construction Co. grossed more than $2,000,000 from home improvements in the Washington area between 1963 and 1965. Complaints about high costs and shoddy workmanship caused the Federal Housing Authority to investigate Monarch, banks were warned by the FHA, money became scarce and the company folded. When the Justice Department began its own investigation, Cohen panicked and sought help from Dowdy...
...Europe as no more than primitive barbarians. True, certain prehistoric monuments, like Britain's Stonehenge-whose great slabs are now thought to have formed a sophisticated solar observatory-did indicate a high order of culture. But such structures were usually ascribed to the influence, if not the actual workmanship, of skilled migrants from the much more civilized areas of the Near East. Now, in a surprising about-face, archaeologists are sharply questioning their old assumptions about the cultural inferiority of early Europeans. What has prompted this major reassessment is a change in archaeology's key dating tool...