Word: motor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Japanese are making steel in Malaysia, drilling for oil off Indonesia, building cars in the Philippines and assembling television sets in Taiwan. Half a million Honda, Yamaha and Suzuki motor bikes put-put along South Viet Nam's roads, and little Sony radios are to be seen everywhere. "The people feel that we are being invaded," says Thailand's Economic Affairs Minister Bunchana Atthakor, "this time economically...
Thoughtful businessmen are just beginning to grasp the enormity of the change that confronts them. By contrast with the 1960s, predicts Arjay Miller, former president of Ford Motor Co. and now dean of Stanford's Graduate School of Business, the 1970s will bring "increasing emphasis-and rightly so-on public goods." By Miller's definition, "public goods" are those not subject to the private marketplace: education, welfare, subsidized housing, safety, parks, clean air and water. "The shift from private to public goods is a tribute to the private sector of the economy," he says. "It has done...
Since shooting began two months ago, the temperature has rarely risen above minus-five degrees, and more often it hovers a good ten or 15 degrees below that. The camera is equipped with arctic oil and a special heating element beneath the motor, neither of which keeps the film from going brittle and breaking periodically. The sound man has been forced to wrap his microphone in a woman's stocking to soften the noise of the wind that howls across the snow. In one scene that required going without gloves, Tom Courtenay, who stars as Ivan (and uses...
...antipollution devices. President Nixon, in his message to Congress last week (see ENVIRONMENT), proposed strict new Government standards to eliminate virtually all auto-caused pollution by 1975. Detroit could accomplish this by replacing the internal-combustion engine with hybrid cars that combine a small gas engine and an electric motor, or engines that run entirely on electricity, steam or even natural gas. G.M. has an XP-883 test model that can use gasoline, electric or hybrid systems. While some of these cars may hold long-term promise, each is said to be too costly or impractical for the here...