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1. advance by leaps
2. arise from faults
3. awaken to the fact
4. bald fact
5. be caught in a fateful struggle
6. be financed more by debt than equity
7. be immune to future threats
8. beside the point
9. bring design and quality engineers, blue-collar workers, vendors, and sales and service forces into a
cooperative effort
10. build assiduously
11. built to tolerance
12. capital intensity
13. catch up with
14. come under pressure
15. commercial aircraft
16. competitors
17. computer-controlled robots
18. contrasting attitudes
19. created a surge in demand
20. cut eightfold
21. design for quality
22. detect a defect
23. discounted cash flow
24. divide those that lead in quality from those that have fallen behind
25. erode imperceptibly
26. executives
27. failure rate
28. Federal Trade Commission
29. fitness for use, plus reliability, delivered at a marketable price
30. fixes on the shop floor
31. foreign competitor
32. function flawlessly
33. give quality specialists more clout
34. half again as often as
35. have more enthusiasm for excellence than skills to attain it
36. hold down costs
37. identify the special characteristics
38. importune smb for advice
39. improve quality
40. improved quality
41. increase automation
42. increases productivity
43. inspect output
44. involves the whole industrial process
45. keep a record of what happens afterward
46. keep the same labor force
47. lose the business
48. loss of "work ethic"
49. make corrections
50. management's responsibility
51. manufacture
52. manufacturing cost
53. marketplace
54. meet fixed production quotas
55. meet standards
56. middle-sized plant
57. moving belts
58. nothing short of "massive training" will do the job.
59. pacesetters are run by people who insist on excellence
60. pass along the lines
61. patient money
62. pay off
63. perform the task of
64. plant floor
65. plant's capacity
66. press for inexorable quarterly earnings gains
67. produced defects
68. product design
69. production lines
70. quality assurance
71. quality assurance
72. quality control
73. quality disparities among companies or industries
74. quality oriented
75. raise both productivity and quality
76. rate of rejects is down
77. rearrange the incentives that motivate managers
78. reduce costs
79. relative decline in quality
80. retooling of the industry
81. rewards of quality assurance
82. search for ways of improving quality and productivity
83. set a company-wide record
84. set new world standards
85. sets an acceptable level of quality
86. shock the industry into action.
87. shoot for perfection
88. show concern for quality
89. statistical analysis of quality
90. sticks to smth
91. stockholders
92. subsidiary
93. summarize the consequences
94. supply better parts
95. take an early retirement
96. take hold
97. take the time
98. tally defects
99. taxpayer's money
100.trace to the source
101.turn companies upside down
102.turn out more defects than TV sets
103.turn their backs on U.S.-manufactured products in favor of
104.under pressure
105.under proper management
106.unionization
107.upgrade goals
108.vendor
109.warranty claims
110.weed defects down to an acceptable level
111.win the world's markets
112.wipe out the nation's image as the world's purveyor of junk
113.working definition of the quality most sought today
