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Word: datsun (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intense, ideas poured forth that were able to shock a nation and yet influence its policies. Treating nuclear war as unthinkable, he said, made it all the more probable, and the U.S. must prepare to survive one. He predicted the boom of Japan's economy well before the Datsun invasion; more recently he warned of problems that lie ahead for that island nation. For the U.S., he saw a new golden age during the next two decades marked by disappearing poverty, an upsurge of productivity and an abundance of resources. Even his book titles- Thinking About the Unthinkable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinker of the Unthinkable | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

...rain erosion; once gone, it takes decades to replace. The sodbusters are either big operators who buy land and plow on a major scale, or small ranchers who break their own land for a quick cash fix. "I want to make a buck," concedes John Greytak, 53, a former Datsun dealer and present grain operator who since 1974 has broken 250,000 acres of grazing land, mostly in Montana, and stores some 30% of his wheat production in giant bins (for which the Government pays him 26.5? per bu. each year). Robert W. Thomas has put more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carving Out a New Dust Bowl | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

...wandering minstrel, transformed into a rocker with a red guitar; Yum-Yum (Soprano Michelle Harman-Gulick) in a flared short skirt and visor cap, giggling and jawing gum like a Tokyo Valley Girl; and the Mikado himself (Bass Donald Adams), arriving onstage, with all appropriate ceremony, in a Datsun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stockyard Savoyard | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...take your Datsun when you go to visit Richard Moe, chairman of Delta Rubber Co. in Danielson, Conn. Moe's company makes seals for the ball bearings used in American-made autos, and the Japanese invasion of the U.S. market bothers him. Now he has decided to stop it the only place he can: at the edge of Delta's parking lot. Since Jan. 1, suppliers arriving in Toyotas and their ilk have had to look elsewhere for a space. The only exception: Delta employees who already owned Japanese cars, but no 1983 models, please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dividends: No Parking | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

Half a minute later, seven shots were fired at the car from a high vantage point somewhere to the rear. Recounting the incident a year later. Reed says he crouched under the dashboard of the Datsun for the next block, as the driver weaved through traffic at 50 miles per hour...

Author: By Jeffrey M. Senger, | Title: Eye On Central America | 3/19/1983 | See Source »

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