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...MALE NOVELISTS WITH A YEN to be Danielle Steel: a motorcycle will haul almost any load of sentimental mush. Robert Olmstead knows this. In his novel AMERICA BY LAND (Random House; $20), Ray Redfield, 23 and drifting, heads out on his Harley to visit his cousin Juliet in New Mexico. He doesn't know she has just sold her newborn daughter to a pair of yuppies. She doesn't know he is bleeding internally from an industrial accident. On the big bike, wounded together, they blast through Colorado and Nevada at 80 m.p.h., charming waitresses and sassing state cops, bumming...
...that more accurately conveys the un-representativeness of the organization. To put it bluntly, the leaders of AAA are outright wrong to think that they can engage in political activism without political responsibility. Daniel H. Choi '94 Larry K. Fan '94 Kenji Fujita '94 Alfred Lin '94 Leon S. Yen '93 Founding Members, HRAFR
...news, telecommunications giant NTT announced that it would cut 30,000 employees over three years. And Matsushita president Akio Tanii resigned, accepting responsibility for a sharp drop in profits, owing in part to costs associated with 700,000 defective refrigerators. Making matters worse is the sudden rise of the yen to a record high against the dollar. Monetary appreciation will hurt Japan's big exporters first, bringing in fewer yen for their sales in dollars abroad. Toyota, for example, calculates that for every yen in appreciation against the dollar, it loses $51 million in revenue from exports...
...much a projection into the future as a metaphorical evocation of today's technological flux. The hero of Neuromancer, a burned-out, drug-addicted street hustler named Case, inhabits a sleazy INTERZONE on the fringes of a megacorporate global village where all transactions are carried out in New Yen. There he encounters Molly, a sharp-edged beauty with reflective lenses grafted to her eye sockets and retractable razor blades implanted in her fingers. They are hired by a mysterious employer who offers to fix Case's damaged nerves so he can once again enter cyberspace -- a term Gibson invented. Soon...
...global slump, Japan's automakers face increasingly tough, lean rivals. In the U.S., where total auto sales increased an estimated 1.5% in 1992 over the previous year, the once burgeoning Japanese share of the market has retreated slightly, to 30%. The strong yen and an attempt to inflate prices overseas to offset weak profits at home have made Japanese vehicles more expensive in the U.S. A mid-priced American-built car now typically costs $1,500 less than its Japanese counterpart. Another factor is that Japanese companies are weak in the light-truck category, where such vehicles as Dodge pickups...