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...cars in Japan was to keep the prices high and market the cars as novelties. But last year, when the yen rose sharply against the U.S. dollar, Chrysler and Ford could afford to cut prices sharply. To their surprise, sales of the popular Taurus doubled, and last month the Jeep Cherokee became the first U.S.-made model in Japan to rack up more than 10,000 sales in a year. Clearly the fussy Japanese buyer who demanded a museum-quality body finish is in retreat; in his place is a worker whose income has stagnated during the country's recession...
...elders that "it's a known fact that under the influence of alcohol you can break all the Ten Commandments of God." The two defendants, who sometimes had trouble keeping a straight face during the proceedings, replaced their ceremonial headdress with baseball caps, jumped into a jeep and drove home for the evening, grinning...
...flooded the U.S. Then, Castro had responded to Jimmy Carter's blanket offer of asylum by opening the port of Mariel for any boat that wanted to leave. And last week Castro was again quick to play his trump card. He toured the scene of the rioting in a jeep and later appeared on Cuban TV to accuse the U.S. of provoking the incident. "I do not want to say there will be another Mariel," he said. "But either they take serious measures to guard their coasts, or we will stop putting obstacles in the way of people who want...
...chiefs and uses a megaphone to ask them to come down and perform simple tasks their employees carry out every day. Louis Gerstner of IBM is challenged to format a computer disk; he doesn't respond. But Ford's Alex Trotman does agree to change the oil in a jeep. After he completes the chore, Moore, referring to a Ford slogan, asks him, "If quality is job one, what is job two?" Trotman responds earnestly, "We don't have ... we don't think of what's second really...
...were shot to death by gangsters during a car chase on the Rublev Highway. What surprised onlookers was not the sight of a high-speed gun battle along the heavily guarded road. It was the fact that a modest, Russian-made Zhiguli was able to overtake a more powerful Jeep Grand Cherokee...