Word: roading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...name will join those of Henry Ford and Walter P. Chrysler. "As I stand here, it feels as if I am standing on a cloud," said Kaminari-san, or Mr. Thunder, as he is known to his workers. His company has put 1.4 million American-made Hondas on the road and sold 5.1 million imports since 1970. Said he: "I found doing business here much easier than in Japan. Our company in Ohio has been so well accepted that I believe it is an American company in substance...
...attend Emperor Hirohito's funeral in February, a top aide alerted him to a problem that would once have been considered unworthy of presidential attention. Since Japanese furniture makers are eager for tropical hardwoods, officials in western Brazil hoped that Tokyo would finance the paving of a 500-mile road that would link the Amazon to a Peruvian highway, allowing lumberers to truck their timber directly to Pacific ports. But the plan, Deputy National Security Adviser Robert Gates cautioned the President, would subject the western Amazon to more of the slash-and-burn land clearing that has already devastated much...
During his meeting with Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita in Tokyo, Bush expressed concern about the project. Takeshita seemed prepared for the question. He stiffly denied involvement and assured Bush that his country would not fund the road. It was the first time that a U.S. President considered an ecological issue important enough to justify a tense moment in relations with the world's other economic superpower...
Three miles down the road is Robin Van Norman's nearest neighbor, Jim Wright. From his house Wright can gaze up at a rugged outcropping where Freeport has found a modest ore body. If the site is mined, Wright worries, what will happen to a gurgling, gushing spring that forms the headwaters of Niagara Creek, which in turn fills a large reservoir Wright uses to irrigate a wide green hay meadow...
...haven't met anybody who likes the idea of 50 percent," says James M. Harmon '93, the student leader of the first-year students' Committee Against Randomization. "People have said that Jewett just said 50 so that 100 percent would look better down the road--then he could implement the policy without being the one responsible...