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...dumping the Mustang during the 1990s until some cooler heads prevailed. The latest Mustang also has gained from the continuity on the team represented by Gelardi and Randle, who have stayed together for years, much like product development teams at the most successful Japanese companies such as Toyota and Honda. Whether Mustang can break through the consumer funk that has devastated new car sales lately remains to be seen...
...Japan's Nikkei index fell to a 26-year low. Couple this with the appreciation of the yen - which some economists say could strengthen to an exchange rate of 80 to the dollar by the end of next year - and it's little wonder that corporate powerhouses like Toyota, Honda and Sony have seen profits dive. Royal Bank of Scotland Japan chief economist Junko Nishioka says that over the past two months, she has grown increasingly pessimistic. She sees Japan recording at least two years of negative growth, the first time that has happened since the property and banking bubbles...
...center of losing jobs, and punishing companies who have created jobs," says veteran Canadian analyst Dennis DesRosiers of DesRosiers Automotive Consultants. The Detroit Three and their supplies have lost 55,000 jobs in Canada since 2000, compared with 40,000 jobs created by the Canadian assembly operations of Honda and Toyota...
...technological development." If it happens, Ferrari and other big teams say they would consider abandoning Formula One. Perhaps, as has been suggested in the past, a few big teams might even set up rival races. "Why would Toyota want to use somebody else's engine? Why would Ferrari? Or Honda? Or BMW?," asks Jackie Stewart, a three-time world champion and former team boss. "The whole reason they're in the sport is not only to be able to win on Sunday and sell on Monday - it's also a gymnasium for talent and technologists...
...anti-equality side in California that seemed to have the most fervor. A symbolic low point for the gay side came on Oct. 13, when the Sacramento Bee ran a remarkable story about Rick and Pam Patterson, a Mormon couple of modest means - he drives a 10-year-old Honda Civic, she raises their five boys - who had withdrawn $50,000 from their savings account and given it to the pro-8 campaign. "It was a decision we made very prayerfully," Pam Patterson, 48, told the Bee's Jennifer Garza. "Was it an easy decision...