Word: compaction
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...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, from compact cars to luxury SUVs (by way of Lexus). Indeed, the Tundra was considered so important that Toyota's entire executive design-approval committee, more than 30 members, flew to the U.S. to sign off on the final design...
Indeed, for all Toyota's strengths, the company needs a truck hit in the U.S. to offset weaker prospects in other areas. While Toyota is expanding rapidly in Europe and China, those sales tend to be concentrated in the compact-car segment, in which profit margins are low. In Japan, where Toyota intends to launch its Lexus brand in August, the company may have a hard time expanding market share, already at 44%. The dollar's slump against the yen, meanwhile, makes Japanese exports more expensive...
...recorder will show up in many stores in the U.S. Price: $1,695. The system uses videotape about half the width of that in VCRs, which are now in nearly a fifth of American homes, in a unit about the size of an audiotape cassette. It will permit more compact playback and recording systems, with quality that is "as good as the Beta format," says Sony Deputy President Masaaki Morita, brother of the company's chairman, Akio...
...that could play only about one-fifth of the Fifth Symphony and cracked if you even looked at them too hard. (But now that we have thrown away all the 78s, do we really have to throw away all the LPs and invest in digital laser-beam compact superrecords...
...will offer yoga and Pilates?inspired training DVDs in the fitness rooms too, and features two-minute yoga stretch instructions on its own TV channel in every room. Full-service Marriott hotels in North America offer three in-room exercise equipment options free of charge, including the BodyRev, a compact, portable free-weight system that provides a full workout, and the BodyWedge21, a large foam wedge that allows you to perform 21 full-body exercises on an incline. www.westin.com; www.marriott.com