Word: honda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...auto market--with 1 of every 7 cars sold in the U.S.--it has the clout. Six years from now, under California rules, 10% of new cars offered for sale--about 100,000 a year--must be exhaust-free. But even with the deadline so close, only GM and Honda Motor Co., have been bold enough to target consumers with their electric cars. Other automakers have focused on government and commercial fleets...
Across the globe, car companies including Daimler-Benz, Toyota, Chrysler and Honda are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into research and development for replacing conventional internal combustion engines with electric motors powered by fuel cells...
Several auto manufacturers have expressed interest in using the Arthur D. Little reformer in their cars, said Derby. "We're having discussions with Honda and Toyota, and also with Chrysler," he said...
...when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down...When there's no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries. If everything dries up, the world is darkness." This is the philosophy impressed upon Okada by Mr. Honda, an elderly psychic with a weird fascination with phlegm. This analogy, intended to emphasize the nature of Okada's adventures in existential wackiness, is repeated throughout the novel ad nauseum. Although it's meant to serve to focus the book's many themes, it seems jarringly unoriginal in comparison with Murakami...
...accident happened on Interstate 84 in Manchester, about 10 miles east of Hartford, during evening rush hour. Friends said Tyson's 1100 cc Honda skidded when it hit sand. Tyson reportedly told authorities he was driving his motorcycle at less than...