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Picture a Toyota engineer in a Stetson, munching on a corn dog, and you'll get a sense of how the company sees its future. Toyota is constructing its sixth North American assembly plant, in the heart of truck country just outside San Antonio, Texas, aiming to build the next generation of its full-size Tundra pickup there and--if all goes as planned--finally conquer the U.S. truck market. Achieving that feat would mark a milestone for Toyota in its quest to become the great American car company and would follow its conquest of virtually every other market segment...
Indeed they cannot. As Coke discovered to its sorrow, fiddling with the formula for the 99-year-old beverage was an affront to patriotic pride and perhaps more. "Some people felt that a sacred symbol had been tampered with," said Robert Antonio, a University of Kansas sociologist. Glenwood Davis, marketing manager for Coca-Cola Bottling in Roanoke, Va., said that he received a letter from a woman who said, "There are only two things in my life: God and Coca-Cola. Now you have taken one of those things away from...
...short terms. Such visiting workers are an essential source of labor in the U.S. for jobs shunned by Americans. Their earnings help to alleviate the economic distress of their families in Mexico, and they provide that country with much needed dollars for international trade. E. Manning Giles San Antonio...
...Polo Association (USPA) has nearly doubled since 1977, to more than 2,300 people. There are now about 200 polo clubs across the U.S. Even businessmen in their 40s are taking up the game, says Steve Gose, owner of the 250-member Retama Polo Center in San Antonio. "They're like weekend duffers in golfing. They'll never play in tournaments, but they enjoy...
...moves amount to an earthquake for Italian banks, which are all firmly in Italian hands and have until now been able to count on the Bank of Italy to protect them from foreign takeovers. But the European Commission questioned that policy this year, putting Bank of Italy governor Antonio Fazio on the defensive. The attraction for foreigners: Italy's banking sector is highly fragmented and not very competitive, according to Credit Suisse First Boston, meaning that greater efficiencies - and profits - can be wrung out of them. Lucky Break? Frankfurt prosecutors called off a probe into six Citigroup traders accused...