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David Altamirano, Inspector...
...Japanese plants and factories, workers are not only encouraged, but actually expected, to make quality control their top priority. At Matsushita Electric, the country's second largest electrical company (1980 sales: $13.7 billion), workers are instilled with the notion that each one of them is a quality-control inspector. If they spot a faulty item in the production process, they are encouraged to shut down the whole assembly line to fix it. Pressure to improve quality reaches beyond the shop floor and often pits entire plants of competing companies like Hitachi and Sony in furious statistical battles to produce...
William Horsey, physical plant director said ten days ago that the operation of the leaking transformer is within EPA guidelines because a state inspector has looked...
...continued almost unabated since a sub-zero Christmas Day, and January temperatures have averaged 19.7°. Some stingy and cold-hearted "coldlords" were giving up trying to provide heat in rundown tenements, and a few had let boilers slip into disrepair-or even intentionally damaged them. Said City Heat Inspector Theodore Klopsis: "There is plenty of heating oil, but some landlords are deliberately turning off their boilers...
...first problem the two faced was with building inspectors. One city official, for example, approved running the wood siding on a building all the way down to the ground, but then another official made the businessmen change it so that the siding did not touch the earth. An inspector forced Shaw to modify the support system for a gabled roof, but then when he used the same method on another house, a different inspector banned it. Complains Shaw: "The problem is that you can't get mad at a building inspector because you have got to work with those...