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...peril for Toyota is that it repeats GM's mistakes by overexpanding. With new plants in far-flung places from China to the Czech Republic, Toyota has added capacity for an additional 1.5 million vehicles a year by 2006, bringing annual production to 8.5 million vehicles. That's a lot of metal to move at a profit, and it's only getting tougher. Rising commodity and energy prices are increasing manufacturing costs. And looming interest-rate hikes, the bane of new-car sales, may make even today's volume tough to sustain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Dude on the Road | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...diabolical and delirious poetry of Stone. There was hardly a beat for transition, just an amphetamine rush of allusive imagery and electric boogie fused by will and some dark unknowable divining spirit. Bob Dylan not only lived on the margin, he was the margin. Approach at your peril. Precious few have ever got near him, and no one has gone beyond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hellhound on the Loose | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...with China has more support than the existing one with the U.S. And China's growing power was seen as a less worrying threat to Australia than any of the other nine options listed. Any remnants of Australia's historical panics about the threat from the north - the "yellow peril" - seem to have been consigned to a chest in the national attic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living With The Giants | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...glance. In what other age would the perpetually haunted and displaced hero have emerged with such stature? In what other age would a writer like Kafka have been made so welcome: characters lost in and tormented by agnostic society, unaware of the location and identities of their enemies, feeling peril and persecution for unspecified crimes, and yet not innocent either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the People Saw: A Vision of Ourselves | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...colored and Indian representation, not to mention the repeal of the racial sex laws, may not amount to much in terms of political power for nonwhites, but the Botha reforms have helped convince the right wing that the President is not sufficiently aware of die svart gevaar (the black peril). Some political observers believe that in the next general election, to be held within five years, the Afrikaner right wing could supplant the relatively liberal Progressive Federal Party as the largest opposition group in the white Parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Rage, White Fist | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

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