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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Acura model line is one of Honda's boldest gambits. Honda has tried to give the car an upscale image by insisting that dealers for the new model keep their showrooms several miles away from regular Honda outlets. The Acura Legend, a sedan slightly bigger and more powerful than the Mercedes-Benz 190, sells in the U.S. for $19,000, around $10,000 less than the Mercedes, and has % been greeted with rave notices by U.S. auto reviewers. The Legend's smaller, sportier cousin, the Integra, is priced...
...road ahead for Honda may become treacherous as competitors begin offering greater financial lures and slick new models. Most auto experts, however, consider that the upstart has now established itself as the kind of contender that much bigger U.S. automakers would do well to watch closely. One reason for keeping a close eye on the feisty company could be seen last September when Marysville changed over from building 1985 Accords to the 1986 model, a process that required a near total retooling of the assembly line. In many U.S.-owned plants, such a changeover can consume several days, even weeks...
...seems to get ever stickier. Communist nations have agricultural headaches too, but theirs stem from too little production caused mainly by a lack of incentives for farmers. The root problem in the free world is the exact opposite: high price supports and other subsidies have encouraged farmers to grow bigger crops than markets can absorb. In Western Europe, for example, agricultural output has been growing four times as fast as food consumption; in the U.S., farm production has far outpaced the 1% annual population growth...
...packaged-food companies went on a buying binge, gobbling up disparate lines of business that ranged from luggage to toys to women's clothing. Now many are discovering that their eyes were bigger than their stomach, and they are getting back to basic areas of expertise. The latest to join the trend is Chicago's Quaker Oats, the breakfast giant. It will shed its nonfood division, the Specialty Retailing Group, which accounts for 6% of the company's $3.67 billion in sales. Acting on the same impulse, Northbrook, Ill.-based Dart & Kraft (1985 sales: $9.9 billion) had previously announced that...
...nearly $2 billion. He now faces a $600 million repayment that comes due Sept. 15. Will Turner be able to keep his head above water? His subordinates think so. "We've always lived close to the edge," says TBS Vice President Robert Wussler. "Today's numbers are just bigger. Some zeros have been added...