Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invests him with a slightly seedy spirituality by surrounding him with motley religious remnants: an 18-ft.-high statue of the Buddha (flotsam from the hurricane) that he has stashed in his yard; a nuns' shrine to St. Francis that he tends on his island; an occult Mexican medal that dangles from his neck. Spencer's handling of these images leaves the reader conscious at every moment of a high skill and intelligence - indeed, perhaps too conscious. Individual scenes are admirable, as when Arnie's hapless rival Lex, visiting the sanctum of Arnie's island, seeks...
...help make its Mexican car. Ford has teamed up with Toyo Kogyo, Japan's third-largest auto company, after Toyota and Nissan, and the maker of Mazda cars. Toyo Kogyo (1983 sales: $5.8 billion), 25% owned by Ford, will supply engines and transmissions for the Mexican model from its Hiroshima factories...
Ford headed south partly to take advantage of Mexico's low wage rates. Though Mexican autoworkers have a reputation for sloppy production, some are paid only 56? an hour, against $12.71 for their U.S. counterparts. Ford expects to employ 3,000 workers when it starts to produce the subcompact in late 1986. American union leaders immediately called the move a threat to job security. The Ford plant will become the second-largest automobile factory in Mexico and a tonic for its sickly auto industry, which last year produced 260,000 cars, down from...
...stay in New York City. The publisher of his first novel, Cup of Gold, a lush fantasy about the pirate Henry Morgan, promptly went belly-up. So did his next two publishers. It was not until 1935, with Tortilla Flat, a somewhat arch dramatization of the lives of Mexican Americans, that Steinbeck had his first success...
...philosophy of local self-reliance: San Diego. When the city's 16-mile line of trolleys was completed in 1981, it was on schedule, under budget and funded entirely from state gas and sales taxes.* Dubbed the "Tijuana Trolley" because the line ends 100 ft. from the Mexican border, the bright red streetcars have attracted 4,000 more riders per day than originally projected. Fares, which can go as high as $1 for a full-run ride and are collected on an honor system, cover a remarkable 80% of operating costs. Says Dick Murphy, chairman of San Diego...