Word: gardena
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Stephen Wilson Gardena, Calif...
...total may reach $26 billion. In the U.S., the Japanese are investing in everything from noodle making to home building. A partial list: Sony is building a $1,000,000 color-TV plant in San Diego, and Nisshin Food Products Co. has put up a noodle factory in Gardena, Calif. Matsushita Electric is about to begin producing color-TV sets in Puerto Rico, and Toyota Motor is considering building an auto assembly plant there. Last month Mitsubishi Estate formed a joint venture with Morgan Stanley & Co. to build new communities in the U.S. The first will probably...
Though the world Alpine ski championship is nominally an amateur affair, the spectacle staged in Val Gardena, Italy, last month looked more like the world ski-trade fair. With their equipment splashily plastered with brand names, contestants paraded before the TV cameras like walking commercials. For a $400-a-month payoff, one entrant sported the badge of a resort he has never even seen. After winning the special slalom, France's Jean-Noel Augert shouted "Vive Le Courbier!"-a hard-sell pitch for a ski resort in which, as he put it, "I am investing all my savings...