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...plastic body panels and a hybrid power train (a small diesel engine, batteries and electric motor) to get 70 m.p.g. Ford displayed a concept vehicle fabricated out of aluminum, titanium and carbon fiber that gets up to 63 m.p.g. and weighs 40% less than a Taurus. Ford promised to adapt its Windstar minivan, classified as a truck, to meet lower emissions by 1999. But while the Big Three talk about adding a salad bar to the auto buffet, they are busily cooking up the industry equivalent of pork sandwiches. "Look, we can make a car that runs on rubber bands...
...companies most willing to adapt to globalization are Japan's top manufacturing firms. In the past several years, Toyota, Sony, Honda and Matsushita have restructured their management, streamlined decision making and even instituted performance-tied pay incentives. Japan's globalization urge also looks strong among the baby boomers who are going into business for themselves. These 30-to-50-year-olds launched 50,000 new businesses last year, more than at any other time since World...
Disney seemed to be taking a risk when it hired Taymor--an avant-garde director who uses puppets, masks and other non-Western theater techniques--to adapt its most popular animated film for the stage. It turns out to have been a masterstroke. Taymor has brought the same kind of let's-start-from-scratch inspiration that Walt and his fellow animators must have had when they created Mickey and Snow White and virtually invented the art of movie animation...
...Toshiba announced a different DVD standard for such discs that was supported not only by competitors like Hitachi but also by a major content provider, Time Warner. In January 1995, Matsushita, Sony's chief rival, threw its lot in with the enemy. By September, Idei conceded that Sony would adapt its technology to fit the Toshiba-Matsushita standard...
Huidekoper said that within the next two years, ADAPT should make it possible to better report the GOA's intricate finances and that the University can then ask more complex questions about the equatability of the GOA to the different schools...