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Word: kawasaki (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soon his temperature reached 106° F (41° C). A lymph gland in his neck swelled to golf-ball size, his lips and tongue turned strawberry, and scarlet blotches appeared on his chest and back. Jeffrey's illness: a perplexing and long unrecognized childhood malady called Kawasaki disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Puzzling Peril for the Young | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

...early morning of Dec. 17, a Dade County police sergeant spotted McDuffie speeding on his orange and black Kawasaki motorcycle. McDuffie, who had lost his driving license for paying a previous traffic fine with a bad check, gunned the cycle. According to police, he ran a series of red lights at speeds of up to 100 m.p.h. before he finally slowed down. By this time, more than a dozen policemen had closed in. The initial police report claimed that McDuffie's cycle had crashed, injuring him. This report also said that he fought off the police until they subdued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: What Happened to Duff? | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

...many products. We know that compared to a few years ago, we now buy Japanese hi-fi equipment instead of American, Japanese cameras instead of German, Japanese television sets instead of American, Japanese watches instead of Swiss. The four largest motorcycle manufacturers in the United States are Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, and Suzuki. Twenty years ago the Japanese produced less than 100,000 automobiles, last year 100 times as many--10,000,000--about the same as the U.S. produced. Since it does not involve consumer goods, fewer Americans know that Japan produces about as much steel as the United States...

Author: By Ezra F. Vogel, | Title: Japan's Challenge | 4/25/1980 | See Source »

...first the police reports aroused little suspicion. At 1:59 on the morning of Dec. 17, a black male was said to have crashed his Kawasaki motorcycle in Miami while dodging police at speeds of up to 100 m.p.h. He supposedly battled policemen, who tried to subdue him with nightsticks. Four days later he died of head injuries, but by then the story was taking quite a different turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Crazy Cops | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

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