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Small, quiet American towns have become popular havens for Japanese manufacturers. This week Toyota Motor is expected to join the crowd of companies building plants in small towns. Toyota will announce plans to spend more than $500 million to construct a plant in Georgetown, Ky., a bucolic community twelve miles north of Lexington in the gently rolling hills of Scott County. When it opens in 1988, the factory will produce 200,000 midsize cars annually and employ between 2,000 and 3,000 workers...
...Georgetown (pop. 11,000), a center of Burley tobacco farming and Thoroughbred horse breeding, Toyota has found a site close to auto-parts suppliers, a crucial consideration for Japanese firms striving to keep a low level of inventories. In addition, the town's central U.S. location will allow Toyota to keep down delivery costs. Finally, the area offers inexpensive and plentiful electricity and easy access to two interstate highways...
Model U.N. conferences are sponsored by several schools around the country, including Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Georgetown University...
...June 1981, Kathryn Schilling, a Georgetown University graduate, was raped and shot in the head five times on the way home from work. A jury convicted 24-year-old Donald Gates of her rape and first-degree murder in October 1982. Gates remains in prison...
...addition to working as a paralegal, Eyssalenne was taking German classes at Georgetown and tutoring students in foreign languages. She also planned to return to her French literature studies, friends said...