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William Edwards Deming

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William Edwards Deming , 1900–1993, American statistician and quality-control expert, b. Sioux City, Iowa. Deming used statistics to examine industrial production processes for flaws and believed that improving product quality depended on increased management-labor cooperation as well as improved design and production processes. He greatly influenced Japanese industry as it rebuilt in the years after World War II and was often critical of U.S. corporate management.

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Lane, Edward William

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Lane, Edward William (1801–76), Arabic scholar, published in 1836 An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians and in 1838–40 an expurgated but scholarly translation of The Thousand and One Nights (see Arabian Nights Entertainments).

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