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- From: rehrauer@apollo.hp.com (Steve Rehrauer)
- Subject: Re: Politics of car buying(Buying a Japanese car)
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:18:07 GMT
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- In article <CARL.93Jan26153758@atlantis.Cayman.COM> carl@Cayman.COM (Carl Heinzl) writes:
- >Second, I think that you're pissing into the wind by stating "Japan
- >has high productivity." In certain arena they do have higher
- >productivity that we do but the converse is also true. They are
- >certainly *not* supermen doing the work of 5 people here in the US.
-
- In fact, based on what I read, I'd not be surprised if US workers' per-hour
- productivity were a fair bit higher than their Japanese counterparts. On
- the other hand, our Japanese counterparts apparently do work quite a few more
- hours...
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