Word: mazda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overhead, Ford has become increasingly reliant on foreign partners and subsidiaries for supplies of everything from parts to design ideas. Ford encourages its allied companies to specialize, thus creating "centers of excellence" instead of duplicating the same skills in each location. For example, Ford has engaged Japan's Mazda to design the 1988 successor to the Mercury Lynx subcompact...
Although Zimbabwe is deeply in debt, it put on a flashy show for its visitors. Many of the 2,000 delegates were put up in houses and apartments especially constructed for the conference, while others lived in the homes of wealthy Zimbabwe whites. Fleets of Mazda, Peugeot and Ford cars were rushed off local assembly lines for the visitors. Zimbabwe officials were embarrassed, though, to admit that many of the goods to run the conference, ranging from jet fuel to computer printouts, had to come from neighboring South Africa, a country whose racial policies were roundly and regularly condemned...
...sells when you're trying to get an ad to cut through the clutter." To keep viewers from wandering into the kitchen during the station break, many businesses are relying on skits that might have been staged by a bunch of sixth-graders. An ad for Bobby Gray Volkswagen-Mazda in Jackson, Miss., features nine car salesmen in matching sweatshirts, khaki pants and tennis shoes who stage an arrhythmic song-and-dance routine in the middle of an empty football stadium. While three of the performers pound out a funky beat on keyboard, drums and guitar, the other...
Landing a job at the new Mazda auto plant in Flat Rock, Mich., will be something like getting into an Ivy League college, only tougher. About 130,000 workers have applied for 3,100 production slots at the Japanese company's first U.S. factory, which will open in 1987. Applicants first had to present their qualifications by mail. Selected job seekers will now undergo in person an unusually exhaustive battery of tests that will rate their reading, verbal, mechanical and problem-solving skills. They will also be tested for the presence of drugs in their systems...
Personality will be important too. Says Mazda Spokesman James Gill: "We'll be looking for evidence of an individual's ability to participate in a team environment." So far, Mazda has said nothing about testing applicants' ability to sing the company song...