Word: toyota
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...area of the University, Peterson's focus spreads to certain foreign sources of capital that have never been approached before. For instance, Peterson's office is charged with completing the drive for $15 million for a Japan Institute. In the academic year 1973-1974, the Japanese companies of Nissan, Toyota and Mitsubishi (a Japanese export-import firm) gave $2.5 million while the Japanese government provided $1 million. Lately, however, funds for the institute have begun to dry up and Peterson's office has had to increase its efforts...
...cars above those of competing foreign models, and no U.S. automaker can match the gas-mileage claims of some of the imports: 38 m.p.g. for the Volkswagen Rabbit, 39 m.p.g. for the Japanese Honda Civic. Those cars are in the forefront of the import surge, along with Fiat, Datsun, Toyota and British Leyland's Marina. Says Honda's U.S. sales manager, Cliff Schmillen: "There seems to have been a change in people's thinking. It has sunk in that energy shortages and high gasoline prices will be with them for the rest of their lifetime." Johnie Leake...
...well as all of Harvard's other national and international fund-raising, since he took office in the spring of 1972. He says it is his job to "know where the other hand is going," to insure that nobody gets asked for money too frequently, whether it is Toyota or an American alumnus...
While many of the alleyways of this part of town are no more than a dozen feet wide, there is still a steady stream of people, sacred Hindu cows, bicycles and bicycle rickshaws, and an occasional Toyota taxi. Everyone, even the upper-class women dressed in their flowing saris, wears sandals or else goes barefoot. During the summer monsoon the dirt roads in many parts of the city turn into permanent mud puddles and generally any clothing that reaches below the knees is assured of getting...
...Toyota Motor...