Juran focused more on the human-relations aspects of quality, while Deming's approach involved demonstrating that all business processes are vulnerable to a loss of quality through statistical variation.

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This is the annual bang-your-head-against-the-goalpost debate that occurs whenever a high-quality team sprints out of the gate without a loss.

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This could look similar to the fall of 2008, when a complete loss of investor confidence and a massive flight to quality brought the global funding markets to a temporary stand-still.

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However, despite offering audio-visual quality that would have been unacceptable in the pioneering days of television, a small, loss-making company called Broadcast.com broke all previous records when it made its Wall Street debut on July 17th.

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"It's a big loss for the England team, he has been a quality batsman for a long period of time, " Hussey said.

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The cuts are part of the Delivering Quality First (DQF) programme of savings, which includes the loss of 2, 000 jobs over a five year period.

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The head of news and current affairs at BBC Scotland told the Education and Culture Committee there would be "no loss of hours in our output and no drop in the quality of our output" as a result of proposed cuts, on 24 January 2012.

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