The medical schools of USC and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the Kaiser Permanente, Cedars-Sinai, and City of Hope hospitals have won numerous awards for quality service.
Missing from Mr. Bush's proposals, which he plans to outline in a speech to the winners of the government's annual Malcolm Baldrige awards for quality, are tough measures that had recently been suggested by Paul H. O'Neill, the Treasury secretary, who is leading the administration's review of how to improve corporate governance in the aftermath of Enron's collapse.
Dependable Drive The new LS is the fourth generation of the car since Lexus introduced the line in 1989, and it has garnered more awards for quality than any other luxury car, says Lexus.
Jagadeesan, for example, was prodded into action by its sole customer, Sundaram Clayton, the first Asian company outside Japan to win Japan's Deming award for production quality.
A record number of UK beaches have been given the top award for water quality in the latest Good Beach Guide.
It received a 1998 Europa Nostra award for the quality of the work, and a Civic Trust Award in 1992.
Their father Wilhelm Grotrian Sr took Willi with him to Chicago in 1893; there, at the World's Columbian Exposition, Grotrian-Steinweg won an award for fine quality.
And on Dec. 2, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. gave the nation's top award for high-quality care to the Poudre Valley Health System in Fort Collins.
First presented in 1982 to Michael Nesmith for Elephant Parts, the award was reserved for quality "video cassettes or discs in any format created specifically for the home video market".
Some other universities, now deprived of counting Alumni and Award as proxy for quality, have moved to other clusters.
