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Indeed, within the car industry, executives have taken to using the words car assembler and car developer in place of the old term carmaker. The evolution in language mirrors the development of Magna, whose success Frank Stronach couldn't even have begun to dream about in 1954, when, at age 22, he left his native Austria for Canada with $200 in his pocket and about the same number of English words in his vocabulary. Three years later he managed to start up a tool-and-die shop in a rented garage in downtown Toronto, and in 1960 he signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Cars | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...company was focused on the ground: it gradually began offering more and more components to the auto industry, from visor brackets to complete roof systems. As the order books bulged, so did Stronach's paycheck--by 1987 he had become Canada's highest-paid executive. Around that time, Magna's engineers developed the Torrero from the company's components inventory to drive home a point: it's not the parts that matter; it's how they fit together that counts. Dennis Blommers, a plant manager for Magna's Decoma division, which specializes in exterior systems, has been along for much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Cars | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...what are we saying about our tolerance for other people's actions? What if these kids get the message that it's acceptable to use drugs to change their behavior or to fit in? Won't that undermine other messages, such as, It's O.K. to be yourself? ALEX STRONACH Surrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 21, 1998 | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...book. And they are really weird people too. There's a flying dragon and a two-faced woman and figures like the chessmen you have in the den, Dad, and a handsome boy warrior and a wise little ballerina Empress of Fantasia. Noah Hathaway and Tami Stronach make a cute couple as these last two-sort of the preteen Arnold Schwarzenegger and Grace Kelly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nice Movies for Nice Children | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

...cars hurtled past the Harvard Bridge below Dunster House, Patrolman Stronach in the squad car fired twice at the speeders to halt them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Men, Stolen Car Crash Near Leverett In Chase With Police | 4/23/1952 | See Source »

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