Word: carly
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...unusual and creative of all Japanese industrial concerns." Started with 20 employees in 1948 by an inventive garage mechanic, Soichiro Honda (now 79 and retired), the company took only twelve years to claim the title of the world's leading motorcycle and motor- scooter maker. Honda introduced its first car in the Japanese market in 1963, and now manufactures an array of products that range from outboard motors to snowblowers and lawn mowers. Its profits zoomed to a record $532 million in 1985, up 32% from the previous year, on sales of nearly $10.8 billion...
...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...
...stopped on Aug. 13 because the 1986 Ford Cougar he was driving had improper license plates. At Cortez's side, the report claimed, was Antonio Garate Bustamante, a former Guadalajara police officer who had been jailed on charges of extortion but was later cleared. Inside the trunk of the car was a semiautomatic rifle and an UZI submachine gun, both of which are illegal in Mexico. To make matters worse, Cortez had no identity papers on his person to prove his DEA status. The report conceded that contusions were found on Cortez's body three hours after his release...
...disturbing case was by no means the first attack on U.S. narcotics officers in Guadalajara, Mexico's third largest city. In October 1984 gunfire peppered a DEA agent's car while it was parked in front of his Guadalajara home. Four months later another U.S. drug buster, Enrique Camarena Salazar, was abducted in the same city. His corpse was found the following month in a plastic bag. While dozens of police officers were dismissed or jailed in the wake of the murder, Washington claims many other suspects remain at large. U.S. officials say Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, a drug lord...
...journals. But there are some striking encounters along the way. In Paris he discusses Indochina with Andre Malraux and observes that the Frenchman has a tic that "is something like a snort from the nose, and when he becomes excited and voluble, it sounds like the exhaust from a car." He visits W.H. Auden in a completely unheated New York City loft. "Wystan started up some queer kind of little stove, but we sat in our overcoats and our breath went up in vapor." Vladimir Nabokov comes for a visit, and they start arguing about how various English and Russian...