"Risk-taking pays off for Honda"

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Old 08-27-2004, 06:48 AM
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"Risk-taking pays off for Honda"

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Old 08-27-2004, 06:53 AM
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Ohio would be up the creek without Honda.
Old 08-27-2004, 07:55 AM
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2% attrition rates per year??

Thats insane! Detroit's big 2 1/2 would LOVE to have that!
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Originally Posted by Ken1997TL
Detroit's big 2 1/2 would LOVE to have that!
Which one is the 1/2?
Old 08-27-2004, 08:43 AM
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ZERO layoffs since 1979...wow!
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Originally Posted by biker
Ohio would be up the creek without Honda.
What does a Swiss fellow know about Ohio?

ricecake, who is originally from the state.
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Originally Posted by biker
Which one is the 1/2?
Uh, the one that had 50% attrition?
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Originally Posted by biker
Which one is the 1/2?
I think he means Chrysler (now pwned by Daimler-Benz).

I thought this was funny:
Originally Posted by Toshikata Amino
"Americans are big people, and they have large fingers".....The Japanese fretted that people with such big hands might not be able to carry out tricky tasks on the assembly line, such as fastening little rubber grommets onto bolts. "We weren’t sure Ohioans could make the quality product we expected".
That was the real gamble.
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