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Mazda will be bringing hundreds of American workers, most of them supervisors, to Hofu in preparation for next September's opening of its first U.S. factory, an assembly plant in Flat Rock, Mich. Much like the fictional Assan Motors in the recent Michael Keaton movie Gung Ho, Mazda bought a closed-down factory from Ford, which owns 25% of the Japanese company, and is building a new $450 million facility on the site. It is Mazda's largest single investment ever, and the Japanese are sparing no effort to ensure the factory's success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mazda University: American workers study kaizen | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...closed the car factory, and life is desperation on the dole. For bad times, big gambles: send slick-shaggy Hunt Stevenson (Michael Keaton) to Tokyo so he can persuade a thriving Japanese automaker to establish a plant in his hometown. Then, when the do-it-our-way executives of Assan Motors demand that their American employees work harder for less money, have Hunt convince his pals, speciously, that there is a pot of gold at the end of the assembly line. Poor, distraught workers, when they discover they have been gulled. And poor Hunt, doing the wrong things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hanging Tough Gung Ho | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

Educational Resources Group, CUE; Committee on Undergraduate Instruction; Exec. Comm., HRC; House Comm; Editor, Trunkline; PBH legal Committee; Radcliffe Choral Society; Harvard Dramatic Club; Harvard Cheerleader; Junior Day Comm.; MIT-Harvard-Wellesley Flying Club; Longy School of Music; Women's Self-Government Assan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Candidates for the Radcliffe 1976 Class Committee/For Class Marshal | 5/7/1975 | See Source »

...Died. Assan Dina, Hindu owner of Mont Blanc Observatory; suddenly at Cruseilles, Switzerland. He had begun the construction of a larger observatory on Mont Saleve, France, to cost $6,250,000, to be equipped with the world's largest telescope (diameter 105 inches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 9, 1928 | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...Assan Dina, Hindu millionaire, and his wife, formerly Miss Mary Wallace-Shillito, of Cincinnati, Ohio, will give to France the largest observatory in the world with a telescope more powerful than that on Mount Wilson, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Telescope | 12/10/1923 | See Source »

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