Word: honda
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...evidence points in one direction: Kerr McGee was grossly neglig ent in its handling of the plutonium. Plant executives resented Silkwood's attempts to publicize the unsafe working conditions. Karen Silkwood was mentally competent, emotionally stable and awake on the November day when her white Honda slid across the road and crashed into a culvert. The investigations that followed were both cursory and inadequate. More tenuous but still plausible, is his contention that someone tried to prevent Silkwood from delivering her evidence, and inadvertently ran her off the road...
...Correspondents S. Chang and Frank Iwama, working on a cover story with Reingold was just like old times. The three collaborated on three covers during Reingold's first stint in Japan. This time Chang spent two days at the Matsushita Co. in Osaka and visited a Honda manufacturing plant in Marysville, Ohio. He was struck by how the Japanese cling to their cultural past. Says Chang: "For all its Western facade, Japan remains essentially Eastern." Iwama, who joined the Tokyo bureau in 1949, interviewed Japanese business executives for this week's story. Says he: "They used to poor...
...thriving domestic market is the principal battleground for most Japanese companies. The products shipped abroad have such high quality and low price in large part because they have already survived the domestic Japanese market. In 1955, for example, the leading motorcycle company in Japan was Tohatsu, while Honda was a distant No. 2. By 1964 the more competitive Honda dominated the local
Next year General Motors Brazil will introduce 12-ton alcotrucks and Honda will make alcomotorcycles at its plant in Manaus. Ford alcotractors are being tested. A Brazilian food distributor is using an alcoboat to make deliveries to isolated communities along the banks of the Amazon. The government expects that by 1985 alcohol use will cut Brazilian gasoline consumption in half...
Buyers are also shunning the Scirocco and Dasher models, which cost up to $10,000. During the past two months, Datsun and Toyota sold fewer cars than a year ago, but Honda has sold more. Imports in November accounted for an estimated 24% of the U.S. market, as compared with nearly 30% earlier this year. The continued large number of imports led the House of Representatives last week to authorize the President to negotiate curbs on Japanese autos...