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...Matter of Import Your article "A Made-in-America Japanese Car" [Jan. 28] says that Toyota sends 44.6% of its output to the U.S. For your information, Toyota produced about 3 million cars and trucks last year, of which 610,000 were exported to the U.S. That amounts to slightly more than...
...Carter himself conceded, the nation is suffering the kind of economic ills that demand hard choices. The outlook for 1980, as set forth in the message: recession. After growing by a paltry .8% in 1979, the nation's output of goods and services is expected to decline this year by 1%. Administration officials tried to turn that lemon into lemonade by wistfully predicting that the slump "would be largely over by midyear." But that may prove optimistic...
...absolutely flat in December, after pointing down in October and November; three months of consecutive declines in these indicators is normally considered evidence of a coming slump. Steel and auto orders sank sharply in December, but general factory orders were up a surprising 1.3%. Productivity, as measured by the output of workers per man hour, declined by 1.6% during last year's fourth quarter and dropped .9% for the whole of 1979. That was only the second time since 1946 that productivity had fallen for a whole year...
...five largest firms-Goodyear, Firestone, BF Goodrich, Uniroyal and General Tire & Rubber-which account for the bulk oi the industry's daily output of 700,000-plus tires, are having...
...itself. On the premise that the workers often know best, the firms are forming "quality circles." These are groups of five to 13 employees who volunteer to gather for perhaps an hour each week, on company time, in brainstorming sessions that focus on what can be done to improve output per hour worked. Supervisors lead the discussions and help put the recommendations into practice. The result: bonuses and more job satisfaction for workers plus higher profits and productivity for firms...