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The key distinction between the two types of initiatives: the first emphasizes the role of the supplier in assisting the customer with product design and resolution the customer’s environmental problems; the second focuses on the suppliers’ internal performance combined with customers’ desire to reduce risks/liabilities or to lower costs through implementation of better environmental management th. [...] The creation of the NCSD also signals the fact that, as a citizen of the global village, the ROC on Taiwan is determined to play an active role in practicing and promoting pollution prevention and sustainable development. [...] And to excel in the winter, the season of destruction and renewal, we must know again our objective –we must know the garden we intend to grow– and preserve the seeds, some the same and some different, from which to begin a new phase of creation and growth. [...] The genius of the United States, on the other hand, is in the stages of creation and growth –in innovation, and in the selection of seeds for growth. [...] Ford has made quality its focus in the latter part of the century, and is prepared even to move beyond the internal combustion engine to a new product line more reflective of its purpose in the new conditions of the century ahead.