Word: workmanship
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...years companies have been buying the loyalty of their work forces by offering bonuses for superior workmanship or exceeding production quotas. Last week Volkswagenwerk AG turned the bonus idea completely around by offering to pay employees at four of its six West German plants up to $3,600 for their immediate resignations. The company has been hit by a serious sales slump, and is trying to trim its workforce in the nicest way possible. Of the 106,000 eligible employees, only the first 2,700 to apply will be able to collect the payments, which include one month...
...marvel at gold and precious stones. But I am astonished to see workmanship excel the substance. For I have with wondering eyes beheld a thousand forms and similitudes, of which I am not able to write...
...brilliance of its surface than on the soundness and originality of its conception. Just as the magnificence of Shah Abbas's public buildings masked the growing corruption of the society they glorified, the gold leaf and arabesques of Isfahan's art too often hid hackneyed ideas and careless workmanship. Isfahan fades like a mirage when you try to touch it. Yet, seen from the right distance, the dreamlike perfection of the surface almost makes up for the emptiness behind...
This simple theory applies equally to the sprawly vastness of a Bruckner symphony and to the compact contrapuntal workmanship of one by Brahms. The two giants are radically different in their approach to composition and in their goals. But this point seems to have escaped the performers Friday. They sang through motets by both composers with stodgy phrasing, a limited dynamic range, and a sort of funereal literalness which reduced the genius of both men to a common level of gloom...
Advertisements in the U.S. for Sweden's Volvo heavily stress not only the car's design but also its high-quality Swedish workmanship, which purportedly helps drivers survive the rigors of Scandinavian winters and tough traffic laws. That ad campaign is soon destined for a trip back to the old drawing fjord. Last week Volvo announced plans to build a $100 million assembly plant in Chesapeake, Va., that will turn out some 30,000 cars annually by 1976 and 100,000 a year after 1980−all that it will need for the U.S. market (1972 U.S. sales...