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In article <1991Jul22.053754.1709@c2tech.uucp> c2tech!sgreene@mips.com
(Spencer Greene) writes:

> The way for America to succeed in world markets (here's the Asian
> angle; apologies to readers outside the U.S.) is not to copy Japanese
> or other styles, which wouldn't work here anyway, but for us to
> be "more like us," i.e. to emphasize the values which were responsible
> for American success in the 40s and 50s, including (especially) the
> kind of social and professional mobility which worked for us then.
>
> James Fallows, MORE LIKE US, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.
> $8.95 (list) in paperback, & well worth it.

In article <1991Jul22.163526.7466@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> yow@riddler.jsc.nasa.gov
(Billy Yow 283-4051) writes:

> How can we be more like America in the 40s and 50s.  After WWII most of the
> world was in ruins.  America had no competition and the conditions that made
> America successful in the 40s and 50s cannot be duplicated.  

Well for a start we could stop playing musical companies on Wall Street.

We could go back to trying to make a profit by making products that really
work.

We could have companies run by people who have some idea what the product
is and how to make a quality product.

We could go back to the days before the archetypical American product
became (in the words of Dave Barry) a "really neat report."

-- 
Charles Geyer                visiting Seattle
Department of Statistics     Department of Statistics
University of Chicago        University of Washington
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