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...debt to indulge themselves. Despite having lower incomes, Chengdu ranks among China's three largest cities in the number of privately owned cars clogging the roads. GM's sales in Chengdu grew about 40% in 2006, twice that of Beijing. Zhao Jinhui, vice president of Chengdu-based Eastern Kingo Auto Group, a large Chevy dealer in China, says that 22% of his customers finance their purchases, compared with only 5% nationally. "In Beijing, when they get rich, they buy cars; in Shanghai, apartments. In Chengdu, they buy both," Zhao says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to China's China | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

Mifune plays National Shoes executive Kingo Gondo, a man looking out from his house high on a hilltop overlooking the city of Yokohama. In charge of manufacturing, he has just rejected the plan of the three executives of sales, design, and publicity: to pool their stock and take over National Shoes. After throwing them out, Gondo reveals to his assistant that he has borrowed on everything, including the house, in order to acquire enough stock to leverage his own takeover. The assistant is to take a check for 50 million yen to Osaka to complete the transaction, but the phone...

Author: By Young-ho Yoon, | Title: Kurosawa's Exquisite Film, `High and Low' | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

...powder of the kingo root paralyzes the will of anyone poisoned by it and makes him the slave of the poisoner. When Mr. Carnochan got his first & only dose of kingo, he took the precaution of barricading himself in his hut so that no native might take advantage of his willlessness. His experiences, which he described in a report published last month* and again by radio last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Young Python's Return | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

...Natural History Society met in its new room in Lawrence Hall for the first time Wednesday evening. The following new members were elected: Collier Cobb, L. S. S., H. H. Field, Sp., W. F. Ganong, Gr., J. L. Goodale, '89, Kingo Miyable, Gr., and C. W. Woodworth, Gr. Mr. G. H. Parker gave a very interesting resume of the recent literature on the Development of the Eyes of Arthropods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/20/1887 | See Source »

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