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...Perhaps most surprising: in China's hotly contested emerging car market, Hyundai's joint venture with Beijing Automotive sold more cars than any other automaker in the first two months of this year. In fact, with a compounded annual revenue growth of 20% over the past five years, Hyundai has been the world's fastest-growing major automaker since 1999, according to Lehman Bros. Hyundai is "putting pressure on everybody," says Rob Hinchliffe, an auto analyst at UBS. Indeed, even Toyota vice chairman Fujio Cho has acknowledged the blur that is getting bigger in his rearview mirror. "Hyundai has quality...
...quality-improvement efforts, admits, "When I first came to Hyundai, I, too, didn't think quality cars were important." But the new chairman made blemish-free manufacturing the top priority. To break down interdivisional barriers, Chung forced designers, engineers and factory managers to work as a team by creating joint committees to examine blueprints of new models and weed out potential defects. Twice a month, Chung summons senior managers of Hyundai and Kia into a conference room at his Seoul headquarters to analyze reliability issues, sometimes bringing in a whole car and lifting it up on a hydraulic platform...
Your article reflects optimism about a joint U.S.-Soviet manned mission to Mars by 2010 [SCIENCE, July 29]. This is commendable and desirable, but do not hold your breath waiting for it to materialize. One of the major reasons for my pessimism is that unlike the Soviet leadership, the U.S. Administration changes hands every four to eight years. This is not conducive to long-range planning. With new Administrations come policy shifts, fluctuations in funding and changes in attitude toward the U.S.S.R. If we were not able to go to the Olympics with the Soviets, how will we ever...
...after the blast news organizations in West Germany received a 2½ page letter in German jointly signed by two terrorist groups, West Germany's Red Army Faction and France's Direct Action. Composed on paper carrying the R.A.F.'s symbol, a five-pointed star overlaid with a submachine gun, the letter said in stilted, jargon-filled language that the attack had been the work of a joint "politico-military front in Western Europe with NATO as its main target." It called the Rhein-Main base a "pivotal point for war against the Third World and a nest of spies...
Judging a civilization on the basis of its raffish after-hours entertainments poses certain problems. There may be aspects of the British, for instance, that are not clearly visible from a strip joint in Soho. But John David Morley, 37, never pretends to have found all there is to learn about Japan. He simply notices, as have others, that the drinking behavior of Japanese males is looser than the polite but evasive demeanor they customarily display. The Westerner who can inconspicuously swim along with these schools of nightly revelers will almost certainly see much that is barred to casual...