In the late 1990s there was something of a backlash against the implications of TQM, especially in the United States. Florida Power & Light, for example, the first American company to win the prestigious Deming Prize for quality management, cut its TQM programme because of its employees' complaints about the excessive amount of paperwork that it required. Douglas Aircraft, a subsidiary of McDonnell Douglas, cut its programme to next to nothing. Newsweek colourfully described the aircraft company's action: “At Douglas, TQM appeared to be just one more hothouse Japanese flower never meant to grow on rocky American ground.”