Word: workmanship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pioneer investors, however, ran into serious problems. Workmanship was often shoddy. Employees were sometimes unfamiliar with wrenches and other basic tools. Chinese government officials demanded a role in plant management, such as naming supervisors, who often turned out to be more adept at political maneuvering than running a factory. Telephones, roads and other elements of economic infrastructure were limited...
...community in general." On the first score HRE has failed and according to Silverman, it has little hope of success for at least "several years." The second point continues to be debated by Harvard officials, who perceive improvement, and tenants, who see erratic heating systems, poor insulation, slipshod workmanship, and inflated rents...
...time obsessed with speed, when pride in workmanship is in decline, the very existence of such a project is both a challenge and a contradiction in terms. To build the 153-ft. towers, fully 24,000 pieces of Indiana limestone must be cut and individually shaped. The project is expected to take 30 years, and real construction cannot even begin until 7,200 stones have been finished. "We are working just as they did in medieval times," says Bambridge. "In the 18 months since work began we have completed over 1,000 stones...
QUALITY. Two decades ago the words Made in Japan were synonymous with shoddy workmanship, and Japanese products were marketed mainly in 5? and 10? stores. Yet today firms like Sony and Datsun sell their products principally on the basis of high standards. Says Masao Kanamori, president of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries: "The existence of our company would be impossible if we failed to reassess our performance in quality, production and cost...
...Japanese today look down on what they regard as the poor quality of American products. Kenichi Odawara, professor of economics at Sophia University in Tokyo, recently published a book on the problems of the U.S. economy and workmanship entitled The Great American Disease. One example of that disease is familiar to any Japanese car dealer attempting to sell an American-built automobile in Japan: the cars have to be given an additional coat of paint before they can satisfy the demanding Japanese...