Word: problems
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Chrysler has also negotiated a unique company-wide product-quality agreement with the autoworkers' union. If an assembly-line worker sees a product flaw, he is instructed to tell his foreman, who is obliged to fix it. If the problem recurs, the worker is urged to report it to the plant's new union-management quality committee...
...staying alert to subtle clues, just as a criminal learns to spot a plainclothesman by some quirk of manner or dress, or a basketball star tells a head fake from a real jump shot by some giveaway preliminary movement. He even has a solution to the age-old problem of how to choose the quickest line at a fast-food restaurant: go for the one with the most young adults wearing backpacks; they generally turn out to be students or bicycle riders ordering only for themselves and not for families or groups. Says Archer: "I believe we must unshackle ourselves...
...program worked just that way, there would be no problem. But Miguel's curriculum is a tiny part of a crazy quilt of local, state and national attempts to cope with the growing number of U.S. schoolchildren, some 3.5 million of them, for whom English is a second language. Now lumped under the heading of bilingual education, these efforts began with special ESL (English as a second language) classes. Later came attempts to teach children in their native tongue for a few years so they would not fall behind while they learned English. In 1968 Congress passed the Bilingual...
...Olympian detachment served him and his readers well; amid the hubbub and uproar of daily events, Lippmann could be counted on for the long view, for the dispassionate analysis that could somehow drown out all the noise around him. In Public Opinion (1922), his best book, he anticipated a problem that has grown worse through the years: How can democracy survive in a mass society, when its citizens are no longer able to grasp all the complexities of government and when sophisticated propaganda techniques are available to misinform them? Although he was often wrong and self-contradictory, Lippmann remains...
...death in Paris. Two days before that, former Prime Minister Nihat Erim of Turkey was murdered in a suburb of Istanbul. That brings to nearly 1,000 the number of people killed in these "wars" since 1970-not all under the tutelage of governments, yet enough to create a problem. There is not much the world can do about a lone screwball or a roving band, but is it equally powerless to deal with an assassin state...