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...detail helped auto-parts maker Borg-Warner, which discovered that the Japanese believe a product must look good even if the customer will never see it. Borg-Warner, a manufacturing conglomerate, makes a five-speed transmission used in Nissan's popular 280Z and 300ZX sports cars. While the driver sees only the stick shift, Nissan insisted that the whole transmission must shine. "We ran into the Japanese fetish for appearance," says Thomas Hague, the firm's Asian area director. "It's an emotional thing with them." After Borg-Warner polished up its act, Nissan was happy...
Blackburn and Brian Bishop, a respected civil rights attorney, were killed while returning from a black township in the Eastern Cape, where they had been collecting affidavits from parents whose children were detained by security officials. Their car collided head on with an approaching vehicle. Bishop, Blackburn and the driver of the other vehicle were killed instantly...
Even with its overall record of safety excellence, flying by its very nature can arouse fear. Passengers must surrender control of their fate to the plane and its pilot once the aircraft leaves the ground. And while a driver may suffer only minor injury or even walk away from the scene of a car wreck, air crashes are generally fatal...
...came to the U.S., and the following year he took a job as a driver for Roger Corman, America's master of the cheap and quick. Soon promoted to assistant to the director, he learned everything he needed and then returned home in 1962. Globus, who had gone to business school in Tel Aviv, joined him in 1963 to form Noah Films, which eventually dominated the Israeli film industry. In 1979 they decided to move their base to Mecca, as they call Hollywood, and bought control of the ailing Cannon Group...
...epilogue, Pirandello (Omero Antonutti) visits his old village two years after his mother's death. An aged carriage driver seems vaguely familiar; then Luigi remembers--"You're Saro!"--and the driver smiles back, suddenly as young as he was in Moon Sickness, and as vibrant as only a creature of the imagination can be. Once at home Luigi conjures up a vision of his mother, who recalls an incident from her adolescence, when she and her siblings stopped at an isolated pumice-stone island near Malta. They climbed to the top of a white dune, then bounded gaily down toward...