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...assembly plant, in the heart of truck country just outside San Antonio, Texas, aiming to build the next generation of its full-size Tundra pickup there and--if all goes as planned--finally conquer the U.S. truck market. Achieving that feat would mark a milestone for Toyota in its quest to become the great American car company and would follow its conquest of virtually every other market segment, from compact cars to luxury SUVs (by way of Lexus). Indeed, the Tundra was considered so important that Toyota's entire executive design-approval committee, more than 30 members, flew...
...American liberal churchman who as chief executive of a Presbyterian denomination (1951-66), president of the National Council of Churches (1954-57) and general secretary of the World Council of Churches (1966-72) used his salesman's savvy, administrator's organizing skills and diplomat's doggedness in a lifelong quest for union among Christians; of complications from diabetes; in Stamford, Conn. He strove to enlist his church in the fight for civil rights, and in 1960 he proposed the unification of the Methodist, Episcopal and Presbyterian churches and the United Church of Christ, arguing that "our separate organizations . . . present...
...scientists and others have been ransacking the brain for the soul of an equally mysterious power: genius. Perhaps the most famous case is Einstein. Slices of his brain were recently pored over by a pair of California neuroscientists. More revealing of the bizarre possibilities of this kind of scientific quest is the case of Lenin. In 1925 the Soviets, applying a socialist definition of genius, entrusted his brain to a German neurologist, Oskar Vogt. The idea, explains Psychiatrist Walter Reich, was "to establish an institute in Moscow entirely devoted to the purpose of discovering the 'materialist' (that is, 'physical') basis...
...global economy? To find out, AMY FELDMAN debriefed DANIEL YERGIN, one of the world's foremost oil experts. Yergin, 58, is chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a member of the Secretary of Energy's advisory board and author of the Pulitzer prizewinning book The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power...
Reynolds said that affordable health benefits and child care and standardized pay scales are at stake in GESO’s quest for unionization...