Both Ford and Firestone have received a lot of bad press during the
last year or two. State whether you think the DIRECT COSTS or the
INDIRECT COSTS will be higher for these two companies, and explain WHY
you think so.

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Request for Question Clarification by easterangel-ga on 10 Oct 2002 22:59 PDT

Hi thanks for the visit. I would just like to clarify if you are just
asking for our opinion? In this case how should the discussion be?  I
ask this since for example a market analyst will have a totally
different appreciation of the topic as compared to a pure researcher?
What I mean is that will this be a technical discussion or just
expounding on the newspaper reports about the issue?

Just let me know. :)

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Clarification of Question by jjss-ga on 11 Oct 2002 01:44 PDT

Thanks for replying my question so soon.  This question is for Process
Management and Decision Making issue.  I think it should focus on
technical discussion.  Thanks!