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Toyota has its own reason for smiling. All this is a long way from the company's modest U.S. debut in 1957, when the first Toyopet Crowns--woefully underpowered tadpole-shaped vehicles--were unloaded from the freighter Toyota Maru in Long Beach, California. Yet even as Toyota improved its cars and gained market share, the company remained reluctant to build them on American soil. Not until 1985, when Honda and Nissan were already producing cars in the U.S., did Toyota decide to build the Georgetown plant. The company has since been at pains to avoid such stereotypes as those spoofed...
Instead, the John Kennedy Jr. who walks across the Manhattan restaurant (not one head rising in recognition) turns out to be modest, well informed in an insider's way, well read over an unusual range of subjects, focused, funny and 20 or 30 I.Q. points brighter than the tabloids think he is. This night some months ago, we met to discuss work that Kennedy had been doing for years, without publicity: helping New York City health-care workers who do the most menial work get more education and thereby build careers in the field...
Stowe says that one reason his campaign treasury is less than $5,000 is for purely practical reasons. With this modest sum, Stowe avoids the federal campaign regulations which cut into campaign coffers...
...However modest Gephardt's agenda may be, Republicans point out, it would fall to his committee chairmen to carry it out. Almost to a man (and they are all men), those in line to take the jobs represent the most liberal, activist core of the Democratic membership. But they too say they got the message of the 1994 elections. "The goal is not just to have a program but to accomplish the goals that a program is supposed to achieve," says California's Henry Waxman, whose seniority would give him a choice of several committee or subcommittee posts. "The Democratic...
Sitting in his modest office, Will Danoff, manager of the nearly $19 billion Contrafund, talks about the huge sum of money he is investing. Danoff is a star--the fund's average annual return between 1990 and 1995 was about 22%, vs. 14% for the S&P 500 for those years. Printouts and annual reports are stacked on his chairs, desk, cabinets and floor; almost hidden in the mess are four computer screens. On one wall Danoff has hung a printout with a quote from Churchill to one of his generals: "What have you done...