Word: hyundais
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...company hardest hit is the Hyundai conglomerate (estimated 1987 revenues: $23 billion). Trouble started in early May, when a labor leader at the Hyundai Construction Co. was kidnaped in Seoul. Two company executives were eventually arrested and charged with paying thugs $27,000 to kidnap the man to force him to resign from the company. In the meantime, 3,500 workers, demanding 50% pay hikes, had walked out at two machine-tool factories owned by Hyundai Precision and Industry Co. On May 27, strikers at one of the plants seized a five-story office building and took Hyundai Precision Chairman...
...clarity from this Saturday's caucus in Michigan. Gephardt, once thought to be a natural there with his protectionist message, has been handicapped by a lack of money since his poor showing in the South. Gephardt may still be able to pull the "$48,000 Hyundai" out of the garage for some mileage around Detroit, but that is no substitute for his failure to win the support of the United Auto Workers...
...four presidential campaigns, went to work on a television ad that would bring Gephardt's theme to life. It showed a stern-looking Gephardt promising to force the Koreans to reduce tariffs on American cars, or "they'll soon learn how many Americans will pay $48,000 for a Hyundai." The spot hit the air in Iowa the day after Christmas and grabbed viewers by the collar. "What the TV did was punch through what I'd been saying for a year," Gephardt explained last week. "We finally got across that the trade bill isn't about protectionism...
None of the other NICs has been more successful or volatile than South Korea. The government has directed the growth of such huge industrial conglomerates as Hyundai and Daewoo, which manufacture cars, computers and other high-tech goods. Following the example of the giant Japanese manufacturers, the Korean companies have launched a determined U.S. invasion. Hyundai's subcompact Excel, which reached American shores last year, is the hottest-selling new imported auto in history. This summer, General Motors started selling small Daewoo cars under the Pontiac LeMans nameplate...
...Lawrence River on the south and its ancient walls elsewhere, vieux Quebec remains a warren of narrow, hilly streets, dominated by two landmarks -- the venerable, copper-turreted Chateau Frontenac hotel and the ornate 19th century building that houses Quebec's National Assembly. South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co. is building a new automobile factory at Bromont, located 40 miles southeast of Montreal, that will provide jobs for some 2,000 Quebecers...