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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...
...boost. The firm says it aims to regain the millions of dollars it has lost under the state's vicarious-liability law, which places damage liability in the hands of a car owner -- in this case Hertz -- even if the owner isn't behind the wheel. But the real motive, contends New York City consumer affairs commissioner Mark Green, is to force a change in the law. Nine other states have such statutes, but the surcharge will apply only to New York City, where damage losses have been high...
...COMMON KNOWLEDGE that the Volstead Act, several depressions, and the invention of four-wheel brakes have become part of history since a Harvard-Yale Game settled a major championship or demonstrated the best in football. Almost unendingly one hears that these late November meetings are self-sufficient entities--complete, whole football seasons synthesized into three hour, red and blue capsules, to be swallowed only in the Yale Bowl or Harvard Stadium. What more can be said? The 75,000 spectators, the sounds and colors, the brandy and Chanel-scented air--all the riotous and mellow components of the Weekend...
When Andrew Cotton, a 32-year-old architect, leaves his computer-firm job in Irvine at 6:45 p.m. for the two-hour trek back to Temecula, he eats his dinner at the wheel, tries to stay awake with a Larry McMurtry book-on-tape and finally, at about 8:45, after his 20-month-old baby is asleep, spends a quarter-hour with his wife and six-year-old son. "I keep telling myself, now, this is only temporary," says Cotton. "But it's been three years. My wife Jill calls herself a single parent." At 9 the lights...
Habits, appetites and, most of all, expectations have to change. To ease congestion, solitary life at the wheel must be replaced by mass transit and carpooling. Companies must adopt flexible work schedules and "telecommuting" -- taking advantage of the electronic revolution so that a bank's back-room operations, for example, can be located far from its headquarters. The single- family house has to be taken off its pedestal. Multiple-family dwellings and smaller lots will be required for the higher-density cities of the future. "Everybody would like to live in a mansion," says Sybert. "Well...