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...that time, Harvard Co-Captain Ralph James, who was a last-minute scratch last night due to a shoulder injury sustained Saturday against Vermont, might be ready for action...
...Yasuto Mizoguchi, president of Volkswagen Asia, "European automobile quality has always been recognized in Japan." The strong yen has helped bring prices within reach, but the European success is mainly due to hard work and heavy investment. BMW has gone furthest in putting down roots. It has built from scratch its own network of 120 dealerships and committed serious money to a big spare-parts center. At its vehicle-preparation facility, the imports are tuned and polished to the perfection that the finicky Japanese buyer demands. Says Hans-Peter Sonnenborn, president of BMW Japan: "Japanese customers are extremely image-, service...
...find the new heartland of automaking in the U.S., just head south from Detroit on Interstate 75. As it courses through Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, I-75 follows a corridor that has served as fertile ground for so-called greenfield factories, built from scratch for high productivity. This is where GM put its new Saturn plant, but most of the new factories along I-75 are Japanese transplants...
...often must endure a wait of as much as a year. Like all of Hermes' leather goods, the bags are saddle stitched by hand and finished off in melted beeswax in the workshops over its store on the Rue du Faubourg-St.-Honore. Each bag is made from scratch, one by one, by a team of two workers who stamp their insignia inside. If the bag needs repair, even 10 years after it is sold in Singapore or Seattle, it is shipped back to the original craftsmen...
...Mamas and the Papas singers John and Michelle Phillips, has zoomed to No. 2 on this week's Billboard chart. Another platinum seller is Technotronic's Pump Up the Jam. The label's fast dance to the top is especially impressive for a company that has started from scratch by nurturing new artists...