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- LETTERS, Page 8Improving the Product
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- Your story on the joint automaking venture of GM and Toyota
- made some excellent points about American workers and Japanese
- managers (AMERICAN SCENE, Dec. 26). I was disturbed, however,
- by Vice President Bill Childs' statement that the younger
- Japanese "don't accept authority automatically any longer. They
- are more like us. They are our only hope." It is sad to think
- our ability to compete and restore our lost manufacturing
- position depends on overtaking younger, less regimented
- Japanese.
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- D.L. Kimbler, President Society for Integrated
- Manufacturing Norcross, Ga.
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- It's very brave of the Japanese to teach GM how to build
- cars more efficiently, even if Toyota's personnel are at risk
- of being contaminated by the American Dream. Ah, the rigmarole
- just to relearn that if you're making something, the one thing
- that matters is the product.
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- Tim S. Toney Raleigh, N.C.
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