Volkswagen and Audi only recently emerged from big quality problems, such as Audis' tendency towards random acceleration, in the 1980s and early '90s.
The banks and brokerage houses are now so big that quality control is less reliable and sometimes even less expected.
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It makes a big difference to quality of the tournament.
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Of course, Detroit's Big Three have suffered from a perceived quality disparity with Japan's Big Three for many years now.
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Designed for maximum portability and big, high-quality sound, Rukus XL also features built-in mobile device storage net and an integrated carrying handle.
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Second, in the 1970s there was a big gap between the quality of the output and the efficiency of, say, Japanese carmakers and their American peers.
The caveats to our methodology notwithstanding, our study shows that there are big differences in the quality of education relative to spending among counties and is further proof that money is not the only--or perhaps even the most important--factor when it comes to the quality of education.
Even within a particular state, there can be big differences in the credit quality of municipal bonds.
On the water front, not only is dirty quality still a big problem in much of Asia, but scarce quantity, too.
He said the Sony offered much of the quality of the big-bodied cameras and could swap lenses but was smaller and simpler to use.
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The news for Europe's banks doesn't get a lot better, with this morning's downgrade of the credit ratings of Portugal's banks by Moody's - on concerns about the quality of their big loans to the Portuguese government (inter alia).
Yet despite the widespread expectation of impending loan-quality problems, the big banks reduced impairment charges in Q3.
By 1990, now with their in-house quality act together, big businesses realized they needed similar commitments from integrated vendors.
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The initial quality gap between foreign and domestic manufacturers has closed dramatically, (see chart, below), and among Detroit's Big Three, GM's quality is best.
"I'd been influenced by many other cultures, so that was a big challenge to address this Korean quality in a contemporary way, " Cho said.
While that retrospective quality will remain a big part of the user experience, Facebook is also today introducing numerous features to make viewing past activities much more enjoyable and controllable.
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The lack of quality school leadership is a big reason that experienced teachers leave their schools, Ursetta said.
But although small shops compete vigorously with one another on price and quality, their influence on big supermarkets is negligible.
Even more likely is that the quality of football in the Big Ten and Pac-12 will worsen as top recruits go elsewhere.
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Mattingly will expect big things from Gordon in 2012 and quality at bats will be a consistent theme for the young talent.
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The results and forecast indicate that digital cameras are going to be a big seller over the holidays despite higher quality cameras in smartphones.
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Lopez Research believes mobile, cloud computing, big data and analytics will change the quality of information and the pace at which business leaders can make decisions.
The flying scenes are big and bombastic, and the sound quality makes you feel as though a small chamber orchestra were sitting on top of your head.
The ultimate result of the promotion was the widening of an already-existing gap in perceived quality between Detroit's Big Three and their Japanese counterparts at Honda Motor, Toyota Motor and Nissan.
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