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...maquiladoras have become employment mainstays of that country. An estimated 1,400 U.S. firms, including General Motors, General Electric and Honeywell, use the plants to take advantage of a Mexican minimum wage that at current exchange rates is less than 40 cents an hour. Japanese companies like Sony, Sanyo Electric and Hitachi have followed suit, and the resulting boom is transforming border towns like Juarez into bustling industrial centers...
...Kites. To indulge those soaring spirits further, check out the goods at Outermost Kites (Faneuil Hall). For $4.95 they'll sell you a dragon kite with an 80-inch streamer tail. A limited edition Sanyo rokkaku kite, complete with Samurai warriors, sells...
...wakes up to the sound of his high powered Sanyo alarm. By 8:15 a.m. he's taken a shower and is styling his hair with the latest in Panasonic blow dryer technology. By 8:30 he's on his way to work in his Toyota, and by 9 he's seated comfortably behind his Sony computer...
About 11,000 companies make products for Sears. Some of the firms are well known. France's Michelin makes Sears RoadHandler steel-belted radial tires; Hamilton Beach supplies many of its tabletop kitchen appliances; Sunbeam provides irons; Singer makes Craftsman electric drills; Sanyo, Hitachi and Toshiba produce Sears television sets, stereos and videocassette recorders. Most of the suppliers, though, are unknown outside their industries, firms like Irwin B. Schwabe of Great Neck, N.Y., a shirt supplier and the largest maker of flannel shirts...
...sleepy fishing village of Shenzhen, a new golf course stretches out from the Honey Lake Country Club. High-rise apartment buildings tower above newly created avenues, and a 48-story trade center is nearing completion. Scores of foreign-owned operations, including those of such giants as PepsiCo, Citibank and Sanyo, have streamed into the area, where a decidedly unsocialist billboard exhorts, TIME IS MONEY! EFFICIENCY IS LIFE! In the midst of those developments, many peasant families own three-story houses furnished with stereo systems, refrigerators and color TVs (sometimes two per family so that parents can watch one program...