Word: detroit
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Which, despite its seeming vaporousness, is hardly insignificant. Increasing the number of showrooms where they can be seen can hardly help raising sales of U.S. cars in Japan, though it is far from certain whether Detroit's Big Three can offer autos pleasing enough to Japanese motorists to achieve mass sales. As for American auto parts, more than half the expected sales increase would occur in the U.S. itself. Japan's Big Five automakers announced plans that add up to building 2.6 million cars a year in America by 1998, vs. 2.1 million now, and to putting more U.S.-made...
Coincidentally, in the closely watched case of a University of Michigan student who published a violent sex fantasy on the Internet and was charged with transmitting a threat to injure or kidnap across state lines, a federal judge in Detroit last week dismissed the charges. The judge ruled that while Jake Baker's story might be deeply offensive, it was not a crime...
...potentially devastating trade war. In announcing the deal, a jubilant President Clinton said "This agreement is specific. It is measurable."Japan will yield on the major sticking point of the negotiations, taking steps to open its markets to American auto manufacturers.While U.S. officials describe the deal as "historic,"TIME Detroit bureau chief William McWhirtersays its impact remains to be seen. One key point: will the $9 billion in new Japanese purchases of American auto parts -- which in Japan cost less than half the price of parts made by Japanese companies -- apply to cars made in the U.S., or to cars...
...federal judge in Detroit dismissed charges against Jake Baker,the former University of Michigan sophomore who was expelled and arrested for publishing a rape-murder fantasy about a fellow student on a computer bulletin board. The chance that Baker, 21, would serve five years in prison for "transmitting a threat across state lines" (electronically) had frightened other online provocateurs and promised to be a test-case for censorship in cyberspace. TIME's Wendy Cole, who has interviewed Baker, says he severely regretted naming the other student in his fiction. Judge Avern Cohn, in his dismissal order today, noted that...
Before he was a villain, Robert Vesco was a Horatio Alger hero. Born in 1935 to lower-middle-class parents in Detroit, Vesco, according to biographer Arthur Herzog, had three youthful dreams: to become a millionaire, to head his own company and "to get the hell out of Detroit." He accomplished those goals rapidly. Largely self- educated, the teenage Vesco, who managed to complete only half a correspondence course toward a high school diploma, grew a mustache to look older and try to qualify for jobs in local auto factories. He quickly moved from low-level design work to engineering...