Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...True, according to a study by the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles...
STEREO SETS: Another primarily small-motor-powered bargain; an average one played 2.7 hours a day would cost $2.50 a year to operate...
...country where age has traditionally been an important criterion for industrial command, Hon da Motor Co. was long conspicuous for the youth of its leadership; Soichiro Honda founded the company in 1948 when he was only 42. Now, having built it into a colossus with sales of $1.2 billion a year, he is returning the company to the junior side of the generation gap by retiring at 67 and turning over the reins to Kiyoshi Kawashima, 45, a quiet, self-deprecating engineer who at 45 is at least 15 years younger than most Japanese chief executives...
...Moorer has ordered the military to be "even more austere than the public at large." The result is that more servicemen may find themselves in the shoes of General David C. Jones, U.S. Air Force commander in Europe. Jones has ordered his driver to keep his sedan in the motor pool, as the general twice daily walks the mile between his quarters and his office...
Nobody has tapped this sensitivity to image more than Harvard's Reischauer. In Japan six weeks ago he accepted a check for $1,000,000 from Nissan Motor Co.; a similar sum was soon pledged by Toyota, Japan's other leading carmaker. But the former Ambassador to Japan (1961-66) will need all his diplomatic skill to achieve his ambitious goal: he is seeking funds to set up a $15 million Japan Institute at Harvard, and he hopes to get two-thirds of the money from Japan...