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After discussing U.S.-Japan trade problems with Keijiro Murata, Minister of International Trade and Industry, lacocca went to South Korea, where he announced a joint venture with Samsung, a conglomerate that makes everything from ships to electronics. The Samsung-Chrysler operation will produce auto parts and components in Korea for export to the U.S. Both the Japanese and Korean deals underscored Chrysler's policy of not building subcompact cars in the U.S. entirely on its own. The company will now be relegating at least part of the job to foreign companies to keep costs down. ELECTRONICS Sony Complicates the Picture...
What's the new way to cool down a hot car? Law-enforcement officers across the U.S. are seeing a rash of so-called car clonings, in which the vehicle identification number (VIN) of an unsuspecting auto is duplicated on a stolen one. Miami police last month busted an $8 million cloning ring as part of an 18-month investigation that has so far expanded into seven other states and Canada and arrested dozens of suspects, including illegal-alien smugglers in Phoenix, Ariz., and drug traffickers in Virginia Beach, Va. Says Florida attorney general Charlie Crist...
...findings, presented to the committee at a meeting on Friday, also showed that few rooms were unlocked in dorms where doors are set to automatically lock themselves—fewer than 10 in Quincy House, for example—prompting the committee to skip walk-throughs on the remaining auto-locking dorms...
...their locks,” said Jane Fang ’08, a CSC student representative. “On the opposite side of that spectrum, one of the towers in Currier probably had about 75 percent of its doors unlocked. If Currier and Winthrop could be changed to auto-locking doors, I think that would be great because it seems to work...
...committee will also perform a walkthrough of Dunster House and the DeWolfe buildings—whose doors, like those in Currier and Winthrop Houses, do not auto-lock-—this week to see if the results differ...