Letters

SCARING OUR READERS?

Re "Gentle Persuasion," Page 37, April 2006, an article about greenhouse gases and global warming, reminds me of the global cooling article in Newsweek (April 28, 1975) entitled "The Cooling World," which claimed, "the present decline [in temps] has taken the planet about

In light of conflicting stories regarding global climatic conditions, Jayson Blair's ponied up stories in the New York Times, Rathergate and myriad other "creative news" stories, how in the world can anyone believe anything from today's journalists? Thankfully, President Bush isn't swayed by their scare tactics.

Tom Russell, vice president

Rock Ridge Equipment

Hassan Valley, Minn.

LACK OF VALUES LAUGHABLE

Re "Quality Takes A Beating," Page 46, March 2006. I had to laugh when reading your article in the March edition of INDUSTRYWEEK. If you dug a little deeper into all those supplier problems noted by your OEMs, I'm betting you find that most of those OEMs had a long-term, high-quality, ultra-reliable supplier who didn't get the business on those parts because some untested supplier underbid them by a few cents. The problem is summed up perfectly by Mr. Trahan's comment,"We weren't providing sufficient quality supervision for this supplier." If you had a qualified, capable supplier, you wouldn't have to supervise his quality-he could do it himself.