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.

* " Agricultural Productivity and Pressure of Population ," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Vol.

* " The Geography of Human Productivity ," Annals of the Association of American Geographers Vol.

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

* Book of the Year Award from the American Management Association ( 1982 ) for Productivity: The Human Side

The Houston-based American Productivity and Quality Center has touted SNL for its individualized education of adult students.

Polish users of Microsoft's Business Productivity Infrastructure website have noticed a white model's face has been photoshopped over the head of the African American model at center in the photograph on the main page of the Polish language version of the website.

In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling, 1816 – 1906.

The research programs are: Aging, Asset Pricing, Children, Corporate Finance, Development of the American Economy, Economics of Education, Economics of Fluctuation Growth, Energy and the Environment, Health Care, Health Economics, Industrial Organization, International Finance and Macroeconomics, International Trade and Investment, Labor Studies, Law and Economics, Monetary Economics, Political Economy, Productivity, and Public Economics.

Accredited by the American Library Association and a founding member of the I-Schools caucus, the Department of Information Studies ranks the 4th most productive and 3rd most highly cited faculty in the latest Budd survey of " Scholarly Productivity of U. S. LIS Faculty " ( as measured per capita of faculty ).

* American Productivity and Quality Center ( APQC ), a worldwide organization for process and performance improvement

Shingo is known far more in the West than in Japan, as a result of his meeting Norman Bodek, an American entrepreneur and founder of Productivity Inc in the USA.

Lewis's remarks about his marriage were suggestive enough to induce American reporters to invade the offices of Harcourt, Brace & Company for information, to pursue Mrs. Lewis to Cromwell Hall, and, after she had returned to New York, to ferret her out at the Stanhope on upper Fifth Avenue where she had taken an apartment.

Of the major expansions in 1960, three were financed under the R. I. Industrial Building Authority's 100% guaranteed mortgage plan: Collyer Wire, Leesona Corporation, and American Tube & Controls.

Several efforts were made in this direction, and though not all of them survive to this day, the Brown & Sharpe wire gage system was eventually adopted as the American standard and is still in common use today.

The cooperation of our exclusive American licensee, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Division of United Aircraft Corporation, has been important in this work.

In an earlier case, Kingan & Co. v. United States, an American corporation was formed for the purpose of acquiring the stock of a British corporation in exchange for its own stock and then liquidating the British corporation.

ASCII itself was first used commercially during 1963 as a seven-bit teleprinter code for American Telephone & Telegraph's TWX ( TeletypeWriter eXchange ) network.

* Austin & Ally is an American sitcom that first aired on the Disney Channel in Winter 2011.

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

* 1941 – Johnny Farina, American musician and composer ( Santo & Johnny )

* 1939 – Edward Patten, American singer-songwriter and producer ( Gladys Knight & the Pips ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1942 – Daryl Dragon, American keyboardist ( Captain & Tennille )

* 1924 – Rudy Pompilli, American musician ( Bill Haley & His Comets ) ( d. 1976 )

* 1941 – David Crosby, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( The Byrds, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and CPR )

* 1964 – Melinda Gates, American businesswoman and philanthropist, co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

" Taylor, American singer and actor ( Kool & the Gang )

* 1943 – Dick Halligan, American musician and composer ( Blood, Sweat & Tears )

* 1935 – John Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( The Mamas & the Papas ) ( d. 2001 )

* 1970 – Redman, American rapper, producer, and actor ( Def Squad and Method Man & Redman )

* Another Bad Creation, an American R & B and rap musical group

* 1940 – Genya Ravan, American singer ( Goldie & the Gingerbreads and Ten Wheel Drive )

* Oral History interview transcript with Aage Bohr 23 & 30 January 1963, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives

* Procter & Gamble is an American multinational consumer goods company headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

* 1821 – Jay Cooke, American financier, founded Jay Cooke & Company ( d. 1905 )

* AUDIO ( group ), an American R & B band of 5 brothers formerly known as TNT Boyz and as B5

* 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

* 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.