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...automaker has tried to build a car tailored for the Japanese market. That would require a steering wheel on the right, a shorter wheelbase to navigate the narrow streets of Japanese cities and greater fuel efficiency to offset higher Japanese gasoline prices. Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca declared last week that his company would redesign some of its models for the Japanese market and be ready to sell them later this year. Then there is the question of quality -- something the Japanese are usually too polite to mention in public. During last week's talks, Nissan president Yutaka Kume brushed aside...
...factors can influence cardiovascular disease, and many of them are hereditary and, taken by themselves, are beyond a person's control. But the bewildering research has not undermined the essential facts: by far the most important risk factors remain smoking, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. These can be offset by changes in diet and behavior...
...last week at the most stubbornly high rates of all: the interest that banks charge on credit-card balances. While the prime rate has fallen from 10% a year ago to 7.5% today, credit-card rates remain stuck at an average 18.8%. Banks say they need that interest to offset the cost of rising delinquencies. But President ) Bush last week urged bankers to reduce their rates. Not to be outdone, the Senate voted 74 to 19 to put a cap on credit-card rates under a formula that would lower the current level to 14%. That move may have helped...
...biases I may have were offset by senior editor Jack White, a North Carolinian who got some exposure to the Golden State when he lived in Fresno in the '60s. Jack put this issue together with the expert guidance of executive editor Ron Kriss, who still regrets leaving the home he owned in Sausalito when he lived there as executive editor of Saturday Review in the early 1970s...
...course, nothing can offset the tragedy for Magic or any other person who is affected," he said...