Word: toyotas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battered and overloaded Toyota van waiting at the border between Nigeria and neighboring Benin was the unintentionally ironic sign NO CONDITION IS PERMANENT. The statement was all too true for the score of Ghanaians packed inside, and for as many as 800,000 of their countrymen who had suddenly been ordered to leave Nigeria. By truck, boat and plane, they streamed out of the country last week, carrying what possessions they could. Many of them were hungry and sick. All of them were hurrying to meet the Feb. 1 deadline for their expulsion. Along the way, at least 34 participants...
...cuts a deal with Toyota...
...tactic of joining 'em when you can't beat 'em. Reports out of Tokyo and Detroit last week indicated that GM, America's largest car manufacturer (sales in 1982's first nine months: $46.1 billion), may soon enter into a joint venture with Toyota Motor Co., Japan's biggest (fiscal 1982 sales: $16.1 billion), to build a new small...
...about 90% of them men. Companies do not require their workers to attend, but strongly encourage them by paying the center's $200 fee in full and not docking workers' pay while they are at Ise. Many of the big Japanese companies, including Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Toyota and Marubeni, have at one time or another sent employees...
Some alumni, though, are not so enthusiastic. Says a 26-year-old office worker: "You feel different for a while, and then you're back to normal." The sternly taught lessons of Ise are stimulating, contends Suzuko Ogura, 19, a forklift operator for automaker Toyota, "but it's a lesson easy to forget...