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...Honda's rapid acceleration is significant not only for buyers of foreign cars but for the domestic U.S. auto industry, which is expected to produce about 8.7 million cars this year. At a time when American auto firms are fighting hard to regain ground lost earlier to Japanese and other foreign manufacturers, Honda has established a strong U.S. foothold with its shrewd decision in 1977 to build an assembly plant in Marysville, Ohio. Honda's expansion is also a sign that Japanese manufacturers are gearing up their competitive engines to maintain and enlarge their market share...
...school's precipitous rise, and the influx of volatile new ideas on the meaning of architecture, bred a peculiar mixture of worldwide fame--and campus controversy. As the University entered a period of rapid institutional growth, Harvard administrators hesitated to abandon the Georgian Revivalist style of the old Yard and the river houses...
Three Business School finance experts yesterday told a group of Wall Street Journal-clutching alumni that rapid, major changes in capital markets including merger-mania and growing global integration have significantly altered the money profession in the past 10 years...
Since better nutrition generally leads to increased fertility and the death rate in developing countries usually drops more rapidly than the birth rate, these countries undergo rapid population growth, said panel members at "Population Change in Today's World," moderated by Gamble Professor of Population Sciences David E. Bell...
Despite the rapid spread of AIDS throughout the developing world, its appearance in India came as a shock to the country. The case of the young woman, as well as those of 18 other Indians known to have been infected with the virus (two of whom have died), is thought to be just the beginning. Poverty and a burgeoning population of more than 750 million make it difficult for Indian doctors to cope with even familiar diseases, such as tuberculosis, malaria and cholera. Now that the first AIDS cases have been detected, says Dr. V. Ramalingaswami, former director general...