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...long haul. By no means is the system perfect; Nissan nearly went bankrupt in the late 1990s because of cronyism and other inefficiencies in its keiretsu. But suppliers, in both the U.S. and Japan, have been more willing to invest in equipment to manufacture new technologies--such as hybrid electric-gasoline engines--out of confidence that Japanese automakers won't abandon them, or the technology, before they can recoup costs. The Big Three now want to outsource more R. and D. to suppliers, but Detroit has made low cost a priority, tending to negotiate short-term deals and drop contracts...
...just absolutely stunned,” said Meredith L. Schweig ’03, who—along with her thesis adviser, Watts Professor of Music Kay Kaufman Shelemay—won for her project “Made in Taiwan: Hybrid Voices and the Performance of Cultural Plurality in Taiwan’s Popular Music from Teresa Teng to Samingad...
...adequate performance and practice spaces, but to build the right kinds of spaces. As Robert Orchard, executive director of the ART, noted at a panel on Friday, “I’m finding that younger generations are really less interested in traditional forms and more interested in hybrid forms, where music and dance and theater and visual arts collide in interesting ways. To have an environment in which all of these groups are isolated from one another would be unfortunate.” As Harvard plans the future of its campus in Allston, it ought to make room...
Orchard: I’d like to amplify that, too, because I think that the aesthetic trends are also demonstrating a desire for more collaboration among the forms. I’m finding that younger generations are really less interested in traditional forms and more interested in hybrid forms, where music and dance and theater and visual arts collide in interesting ways. To have an environment in which all of these groups are isolated from one another would be unfortunate. I often talk about an ideal space that could function as a dance space, as a theater space...
...Increase in sales of Toyota's Prius, a gas-electric hybrid...