Word: motor
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...Japanese auto industry, which employs 10% of the country's work force and generates more than 20% of its exports, has driven into a similarly rough patch. For the fiscal year that ended in June, Toyota Motor, the country's largest car manufacturer, saw its profits fall 17%, to $1.6 billion. That marked Toyota's first decline in four years. For the six months that ended in September, Nissan Motor suffered a $122 million operating loss, its first since 1951. As a result, the company reassigned 2,500 employees to Nissan sales subsidiaries...
...Question 1: Should the Massachusetts Legislature be empowered to regulate or prohibit abortion?12% YES 84% NO .Question 2: Should the government give public funding to non-public schools? 24% YES 71% NO .Question 3: Should all drivers and passengers be required to wear safety belts while traveling in motor vehicles on public roads? 28% YES 67% NO .Whom would you choose to be the next governor of Massachusetts? 57% Dukakis 6% Kariotis .Whom would you choose to be Cambridge's next Congressman? 49% Kennedy 16% Abt Five percent of the undergraduate population was polled in a telephone survey conducted...
...does more than impose fines on citizens; it sets up state-sponsored education and police training programs. More important, the law can be enforced only if the driver has been stopped for violation of another motor vehicle law. For individuals who have already shown irresponsibility and have put others in danger, it is reasonable to make the enforcement of those other laws also a checkpoint for safety belts...
...campaign is called "Operation Be Stingy," and one of its slogans -- "I'll do it, you'll do it, and everybody will do it" -- is to be taken seriously indeed. Tokyo's Nissan Motor, in an effort to keep the prices of its exported autos low as the value of the yen rises against the U.S. dollar, has launched a major drive to cut costs...
...response to a question from the audience about the future of Ford in South Africa, Petersen said that as long as there is any chance for a peaceful resolution to the problem of apartheid, the Ford Motor Co. would continue to carry on business in South Africa...