HOW EFFECTIVE IS QUALITY AT THE 99.9% LEVEL?

         (From a statistical quality control manual published by Ford Motor Car Co.)

        5,517,200 cases of soft drinks would be produced this year that will be flatter 
        than a pancake.

        2 plane landings daily at O'Hare Airport would be unsafe.

        3,056 copies fo tomorrow's Wall Street Journal would be missing 1 of 3 sections.

        18,322 pieces of mail would be mishandled in the next hour.

        291 pacemaker operations would be performed incorrectly this year.

        880,000 credit cards would be produced having the wrong information on the  
        magnetic strips.

        20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions would be written this year.

        114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes would be shipped this year.

        315 entries in Webster's Dictionary would be misspelled.

        2,000,000 documents would be lost by the IRS this year.

        811,000 faulty rolls of film would be loaded this year.

        22,000 checks would be deducted from the wrong bank account in
        the next 60 minutes.

        1,314 phone calls would be misplaced every minute.

        12 babies would be given to the wrong parents each day.

        268,500 defective tires would be shipped this year.

        14,208 defective personal computers would be shipped this year.

        103,206 income tax returns would be processed incorrectly this year.

        2,488,200 books would be shipped in the next 12 months with the
        wrong cover.

        15,000 newborn babies would be accidentally dropped by doctors and
        nurses this year.