Word: controller
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Whether in criminal or private cases, anyone has the right to refuse a test. Of course, this is hardly a safeguard for someone whose refusal-for whatever reason-may cost him a job. "It's a good social control policy," says Jerome Skolnick, director of the University of California's Center for the Study of Law and Society. "But is it acceptable?" Many businessmen have legitimate reasons for thinking so; but in a society where privacy is so highly prized, it may be a bad trade...
Innovative approaches to quality control are most apparent at Chrysler, where new models like the Dodge St. Regis and the Chrysler New Yorker in 1979 were often clunkers when they rolled off the assembly line. Says U.A.W. Vice President Marc Stepp: "The Chrysler worker is now very sensitive to the need to build a good piece off the press. He knows that if the company goes down...
With Detroit's new plants, new equipment and new emphasis on quality control, the reindustrialization of the American auto industry has begun. Moreover, Detroit's experience provides many lessons for other sectors of U.S. business. The most obvious is the need to avoid such industrial decline. A generation of neglect has sapped Detroit's competitive strength, and further delay would have put it in graver peril. Only the huge capital investment now being made has given American automakers the chance to survive...
Instead, workers and management share the same objectives. Each plant has its white-collar and blue-collar quality-control circles, in which three to ten employees meet on their own time to analyze the standards of work and ways to improve the product. The rewards for usable ideas are mostly psychological. Unlike General Motors' high-paying suggestion program, which offers employees up to $10,000 for useful innovations, a Japanese firm's award of $600 for a patentable idea is considered generous. At Nissan, maker of Datsun, an original proposal is usually rewarded with a ballpoint...
Trifa first came to the U.S. from Italy in 1950. Two years later, he led anti-Communist Rumanians in seizing control of their church headquarters from a rival group loyal to the Orthodox patriarchate in Rumania. Meanwhile Charles Kremer, a Rumanian-American dentist in New York City and a Jew, learned that Trifa had come to the U.S. Kremer inundated the Government with documents to prevent Trifa from getting U.S. citizenship in 1957. The Immigration and Naturalization Service evidently paid him little heed. Kremer kept on trying...