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...automaker has tried to build a car tailored for the Japanese market. That would require a steering wheel on the right, a shorter wheelbase to navigate the narrow streets of Japanese cities and greater fuel efficiency to offset higher Japanese gasoline prices. Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca declared last week that his company would redesign some of its models for the Japanese market and be ready to sell them later this year. Then there is the question of quality -- something the Japanese are usually too polite to mention in public. During last week's talks, Nissan president Yutaka Kume brushed aside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trade and Politics: Mission Impossible | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

...exam schedule, students gave mixed reactions to the shorter reading period, but expressed almost unanimous disgust with Harvard's system of having exams after break...

Author: By Richelle Nessralla, | Title: Exam Stress | 1/15/1992 | See Source »

...shorter reading period is fine, as long as we have a longer intersession," said Sarada Gurubhagavatula '94. "I don't like having exams after Christmas because it ruins your break, especially when you see all your friends at home who are done and you know you have to come back to finals...

Author: By Richelle Nessralla, | Title: Exam Stress | 1/15/1992 | See Source »

...said she supports the shorter reading period, however, because it allows for a longer intersession...

Author: By Richelle Nessralla, | Title: Exam Stress | 1/15/1992 | See Source »

...hacked at by razor-sharp weeds became fond memories when the trail suddenly zoomed up the mountain at a 70 degrees incline. For almost a mile straight up, there was less a path than a series of tenuous toeholds dug into sticky red clay. Several other equally steep but shorter climbs that followed made the six-mile journey a five-hour ordeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Expeditions: My Search for Colonel Scharf | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

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