Marketers are attempting to combat the discount dilemma with pitches about quality, value and experience.
Transportation is about quality of life, economic and community vitality, access and connectivity, and safety.
"I got to the stage where I started thinking about quality of life, " he said.
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If they are off-shore sourcing, you have to be concerned about quality and safety stock.
It's not just about failing to add value -- it's about quality control, too.
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Second, the discussion has to be about quality of life, not just length of life.
It's all about quality of life and generally they feel a lot happier.
It is not about artificially creating a given wine, he said - it is more about quality control and consistency.
David Jones, leader of Powys council, said they had been supplied by Holdsworth for "some while" without any concerns about quality.
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And even that 4.6% is not tracked correctly since the BLS keeps making assumptions about quality adjustments to lower the cost increases.
Tabloid proprietors are less than thrilled about quality papers aping their size.
Juran, an electrical engineer, had also gone to Japan after the second world war and begun to teach middle managers about quality.
The need for tighter scrutiny is evident in claims reported by the New York Times about quality control issues at Westborough, Mass.
Guitar overlord Paul Reed Smith is so fanatical about quality that he has grabbed less-than-perfect instruments from his luthiers and sawed them in half.
Not surprisingly, somewhere along the way, people stopped shopping for health care, at least on any dimensions related to price (they still cared deeply about quality).
In the wake of its recalls, Toyota found that its highly centralized, engineering-centric communication structure slowed down its ability to understand early warning signals about quality.
It would also be useful for them to indicate the age of data on their maps so that users can make some decisions about quality and usage.
Concerns about quality control also apply: Weather patterns affect crops differently year to year, and major events like drought or flooding can cause the prices of raw materials to spike.
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There are fears that people determined to keep taking their favourite herbs may go online and choose to buy them from merchants who may be careless about quality or potency.
The biggest difference between this microm induction heating pressure rice cooker and your average kitchen gadget is that it is not just about convenience and efficiency, it is also about quality.
Quantitatively, this can be debated, but what about quality?
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For those authors who have been told they have been passed over because of poor BookScan numbers, it may well be that the editor is simply chickening out of a harder conversation about quality, fit, marketing, etc.
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He thus joined W. Edwards Deming (see article) in management mythology as one of the two Americans who, unappreciated in their own fast-food country for their ideas about quality, had been compelled to go abroad to find recognition.
With this challenge looming large, I left the conference concerned that more people there were not talking and thinking deeply about quality and really using the online medium in ways that transcend anything we could do in a traditional classroom and our traditional system.
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Professor John Last, chief executive of Norwich University College of the Arts, said: "This is a very significant announcement which recognises that 'university' title has to be about quality and not merely size and corrects an anomaly for a specialist institution established in 1845".
In an interview at his campaign headquarters, its walls painted with Jersey City landmarks, Fulop, a former Marine who moved to Jersey City shortly after graduating college and was elected to the City Council in 2005, said he cares deeply about quality of life in Jersey City and it doesn't matter whether he was born and raised here.
Photography today is as much about image quality as it is about sharing, whether through prints or online communities.
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But there have been concerns about the quality of some courses and questions about whether there should be greater strategic planning.
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