* Quality Comics ( some properties licensed 1956, later acquired )

The license to reprint 2000 AD material in the US was later taken over by Quality Comics.

In 1940, he joined Will Eisner's studio, where he wrote and drew for the Quality Comics line.

After becoming an editor at Lev Gleason and revamping Jack Binder's original Golden Age Daredevil in 1940, Cole hired on at Quality Comics.

At the behest of Quality publisher Everett " Busy " Arnold, Cole later created his own satiric, Spirit-style hero, Midnight, for Smash Comics # 18 ( Jan. 1941 ).

These meetings produced a considerable number of notable events and characters to JSA history, including Black Canary leaving to join the Justice League, the return of the Golden Age team the Seven Soldiers of Victory, the creation of the Freedom Fighters, ( which incorporated several Quality Comics characters into DC continuity after the characters were purchased by DC Comics ), and the introduction of a number of other alternative Earths to house these other teams.

Other popular and long-running characters included Quality Comics ' Plastic Man, and cartoonist Will Eisner's non-superpowered masked detective the Spirit, originally published as a syndicated Sunday-newspaper insert in a quasi-comic book format.

* Quality Comics, an American comic book publisher between 1939 and 1956

* Merlin the Magician ( comics ), a Quality Comics character

* Bart Hawk, a military pilot who went by the codename Blackhawk in the 1940s Quality Comics incarnation

Notable, long-running titles published by Quality include Blackhawk, Feature Comics, G. I.

Quality Comics was founded by Everett M. " Busy " Arnold, a printer who saw the rapidly rising popularity of the comic book medium in the late 1930s.

Arnold became 50 % owner of the newly formed Comic Magazines, Inc., the corporate entity that would publish the Quality Comics line.

That year Quality released Smash Comics # 1 ( Aug. 1939 ), the company's first comic book with exclusively new material.

Crack Comics # 5 ( Sept. 1940 ), first use of the " Quality Comic Group " logo ( to right of " COMICS ").

The name Quality Comics debuted on the cover of Crack Comics # 5 ( Sept. 1940 ; see at right ).

" Seemingly never an official publishing title ," the Connecticut Historical Society noted, " the Quality Comics Group is a trademarked name ( presumably taking its name from Stamford's nickname of ' the Quality City ') encompassing Comic Favorites Inc., E. M. Arnold Publications, Smash Comics, and any other imprints owned by Arnold ".

This allowed Malibu Comics, for instance, to publish new stories of several Quality characters ( mostly those Quality itself bought from Centaur Publications ), such as Zardi the Eternal Man.

A review by the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality found that much of the evidence for the off-label use of antipsychotics ( for example, for depression, dementia, OCD, PTSD, Personality Disorders, Tourette's ) was of insufficient scientific quality to support such use, especially as there was strong evidence of increased risks of stroke, tremors, significant weight gain, sedation, and gastrointestinal problems.

The Quality Management Maturity Grid was developed by Philip B. Crosby in his book Quality is Free, which advanced the position that quality-improvement activities paid for themselves by reducing the related costs.

The name " COMPAQ " was said to be derived from " Compatibility and Quality " but this explanation was an afterthought.

A 1954 article by Truffaut attacked La qualité française (" the French Quality ") and was the manifesto for ' la politique des Auteurs ' which Andrew Sarris later termed the auteur theory — resulting in the re-evaluation of Hollywood films and directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Robert Aldrich, Nicholas Ray, Fritz Lang and Anthony Mann.

By the following year Dalglish was a full professional and a regular member of the highly-rated Celtic reserve team that became known as the Quality Street Gang, due to its having a large number of future Scottish internationals, including Danny McGrain, George Connelly, Lou Macari, and David Hay.

Kansas City is most famous for its steak and barbecue. The American Hereford Association bull and Kemper Arena and the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange Building in the former Kansas City Stockyard of the West Bottoms as seen from Quality Hill, Kansas City | Quality Hill During the heyday of the Kansas City Stockyards, the city was known for its Kansas City steaks or Kansas City strip steaks.

** BI was the first Norwegian institution to receive the distinction EQUIS ( European Quality Improvement System )

* Top Quality Crims was aired on 13 February 1992

Quality of service in the field of telephony, was first defined in 1994 in the ITU-T Recommendation E. 800.

Birland established Quality Departments to oversee the quality of production and rectifying of errors, and Ford emphasized standardization of design and component standards to ensure a standard product was produced.

Management of quality was the responsibility of the Quality department and was implemented by Inspection of product output to ' catch ' defects.

The first edition of Juran's Quality Control Handbook was published in 1951.

Quality, as a profession and the managerial process associated with the quality function, was introduced during the second-half of the 20th century, and has evolved since then.

In 2009, KTH was the only institution among all Sweden's universities to be awarded " Centre of Excellent Quality in Higher Education "( in Computer Science ).

In 1974, Pirsig was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to allow him to write a follow-up, Lila: An Inquiry into Morals ( 1991 ), in which he develops a value-based metaphysics, called Metaphysics of Quality, to replace the subject-object view of reality.

In 2008, Tulsa was ranked ninth in " Quality of Life " by the Princeton Review's " The Best 366 Colleges " guide.

This information is coupled with the ALE address of the sending node and the channel the message was received on, and stored in the node's Link Quality Analysis ( LQA ) memory.

In the late 1980s the area was frequently in violation of multiple National Ambient Air Quality Standards established by the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ).

The Regional Air Quality Council ( RAQC ) was formed in 1989 to create plans to address the problem.

* CHCQM ( Board Certification in Health Care Quality and Management ) conferred by the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians

* Cusack M., " Online Customer Care ", American Society for Quality ( ASQ ) Press, 2000.

According to the American Productivity & Quality Center (" APQC ") there are basic principles an organization can develop to encourage and reward innovation.

The CSCMP has adopted The American Productivity & Quality Center ( APQC ) Process Classification Framework < sup > SM </ sup > a high-level, industry-neutral enterprise process model that allows organizations to see their business processes from a cross-industry viewpoint.

Among his many honors, an exhibit memorializing Deming's contributions and his famous Red Bead Experiment is on display outside the board room of the American Society for Quality.

Baranski also received an American Comedy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Viewers for Quality Television Award for her portrayal, while Shepherd was awarded the 1996 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy.

On March 13, 1984 after the Business Process Improvement was under way at IBM, John Akers stated at the American Electronics Association seminar on Quality in Boston, Our studies show that more than 50 percent of the total cost of billing relates to preventing, catching, or fixing errors.

The American Productivity & Quality Center ( APQC ) Process Classification Framework ( PCF ) SM is a high-level, industry-neutral enterprise process model that allows organizations to see their business processes from a cross-industry viewpoint.

Besides the two mentioned above, there are the American Productivity & Quality Center's ( APQC ) Process Classification Framework and the Supply Chain Best Practices Framework

* In its first three years, the Baldrige Award was jointly administered by APQC and the American Society for Quality, which continues to assist in administering the award program under contract to NIST.

* According to Building on Baldrige: American Quality for the 21st Century by the private Council on Competitiveness, “ More than any other program, the Baldrige Quality Award is responsible for making quality a national priority and disseminating best practices across the United States .”

* The American Society for Quality ( ASQ ) assists in administering the award program under contract to NIST.

Some of these professionals are certified by organisations such as the American Industrial Hygiene Association, the American Indoor Air Quality Council and the Indoor Environmental Air Quality Council.

* Barking Man ( short fiction ) ( Ticknor & Fields, 1990 ) ( Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series, 1991 ) ( Quality Paperback Club, 1991 )

While the 1998 Supreme Court decision Quality King v. L ' anza protects the reimportation of copyrighted materials under the first-sale doctrine, textbook publishers have still attempted to prevent the U. S. sale of international editions by enforcing contracts which forbid foreign wholesalers from selling to American distributors.

This track reached # 1 in Canada, # 22 in the U. S ( where Quality had licensed the track to the American Scepter label for release in the U. S .), and # 27 in Australia.

In concealing the identity of the band in this fashion, Quality Records may have been influenced by a similar ploy made the previous year by " The You Know Who Group ", an American outfit whose Merseybeat-ish 1964 single " Roses Are Red ( My Love )" had peaked at # 43 in the US and at # 21 in Canada.