Word: honda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, one can go too far with the Greeks-for-Dukakis bandwagon. Even Dukakis' half dozen or so second cousins who remain on Lesbos are too sophisticated to expect much from any American politician. Retired Schoolteacher Alexandros Chiotellis tools around in an old Honda with a DUKAKIS FOR PRESIDENT sticker in the rear window. Now employed in a lottery shop, Chiotellis gives a wry look when asked what the Duke will do for Greece. "Absolutely nothing," he says. "He will look after the interests of America first. We expect justice from him and nothing more...
...Typhoid Mary of square grooves is a round Nebraskan named Mark Calcavecchia, 27, whose improvement over the past couple of summers suggests sorcery. Calcavecchia caddied at the Honda Classic one year (1986) and won the tournament the next. On the crucial shot, he used a grooved 8-iron instead of a machete to gouge his way out of a particularly savage patch of vegetation. By reaching the green and, what's more, checking up to within ten feet of the hole, that simple golf ball became something of a superbullet. It nicked everybody else in the business...
...across the Pacific with empty holds or perhaps a load of live beef cattle. Reason: while Japan exported 2.2 million autos to America last year, the U.S. shipped a mere 4,006 autos in the other direction. That whopping imbalance showed a small sign of easing last week when Honda became the first Japanese automaker to send some of its U.S.-made autos back home for sale. The carmaker marked the occasion on a dock in Portland, Ore., where Republican Senator Bob Packwood and Honda's U.S. chief, Tetsuo Chino, drove the first auto in a load of 540 gray...
...Honda maintains that the shipment of autos from its Marysville, Ohio, plant is more than a gesture to assuage protectionist sentiments in the U.S. Contends Chino: "It's a small, initial step for future big, big sales in Japan." Honda officials say they plan to ship 4,000 cars to Japan during 1988 and as many as 50,000 annually by 1991. Because the decline of the dollar has lowered U.S. production costs, the autos can be sold in Japan at a competitive price. The Accords are outfitted with luxuries not found on Japanese models: spoilers, fancy wheel covers...
...small wooden shack on Tokyo Bay, but the school expanded rapidly and became an established part of Japan's corporate scene. Now located in Fujinomiya, a small city at the foot of Mount Fuji, the school boasts 100,000 graduates, most of whom were sent there by companies like Honda and Hitachi to be toughened up for the no-holds-barred competition of the Japanese marketplace and to be taught, as Instructor Naoyoshi Fujimori explains, "to work in harmony with their colleagues...