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However long that takes, Toyota has already created a corn-fed hybrid of East and West along the I-64 corridor. About half of Toyota's top 100 executives in the U.S. are American. And there are about 50 Japanese in the 6,500 person work force at the Georgetown plant. At the Tachibana sushi bar in nearby Lexington, Kentucky, manager Takashi Iwata serves raw fish to Japanese diners as well as to locals raised on burgers and barbecued ribs. "I am happiest when I have customers in cowboy shirts using chopsticks," Iwata says. "But to tell you the truth...
...techno-junkie who pours more than $500 million a year into making Fidelity a state-of-the-art operation. In its five phone centers around the country, customer reps have the most sophisticated terminals in the industry. The computer center in Dallas, which handles all the market data fed to analysts as well as Fidelity's trades, is far more advanced than any other such facility in the securities business. "It feels like NORAD," says an employee. Johnson's early decision to invest in the software and computer capacity to service the 401(k) business was crucial to Fidelity...
Andras T. Forgacs '98, who was one of 2,200 students fed Saturday, said he was irritated...
Your article about political strategist Dick Morris was frightening with its myriad implications of no character and double-crossing [THE DEMOCRATS, Sept. 2]. You described an amorphous chameleon who fed Bill Clinton what the voters want to hear, providing the President with a platform that echoes issues back to the voter. This is scarier than Orwell's classic, 1984. Of course we want to hear that; we said it. I hope the average person can judge Clinton's character by the company he keeps. BOB WHITE Chula Vista, California...
...unemployment rate drops below 6%, because wages rise as the labor market tightens. Average hourly earnings in August rose by 0.5%, bringing wage increases over the past year to 3.6%. Throw in the torrid 4.8% gdp growth in the second quarter of 1996, and you can understand why many Fed watchers are expecting an interest-rate increase at the Fed's next meeting on Sept...