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Because Texans buy more pickups per capita than anyone else, Toyota is banking on a core group of buyers in its backyard. The company has started the courting, launching a limited-edition Tundra co-branded with cowboy-boot maker Lucchese and slapping the Toyota name on the Houston Rockets basketball arena. Traditionally, Toyota has done best in cities and on the coasts, selling Corollas and Camrys to baby boomers and Lexuses to well-off urbanites. On the West Coast, Toyota's share is 16%, double its share in the Midwest and the South. Yet Toyota can no longer count...
...were based on the idea that "if you're a good manager, you can manage anything," says Alfred Rappaport, professor of accounting and information systems at Northwestern's graduate school of management. "That wasn't necessarily true." Now, adds Rappaport, the thinking is "Let's go back to the core where we have the technology and the knowledge and a comparative advantage. Let's stick to things where we're better than the rest." As a result of this change in attitude, says Scherer, "mergers of today have somewhat better chances of success than did the conglomerates...
...said, adding that he would not rule out the possibility of seeing Edwards on the campaign trail again. “I think a lot of people who were here were impressed that he’s taking on an issue that was once at the core of the Democratic party’s policy and has slipped over the past 20 years...
...solution to this problem may lie in the restructuring of our Core Curriculum. Screw foreign cultures (not literally, I’m not an imperialist), what we need is Sexual Studies A and B. “Sex Studies A” will deal with broad-based themes, like sexual chemistry, trust, compromise, dialogue, and the development of mature relationships. “Sex Studies B” will examine more particular issues, like foot fetishes in rural Mongolia...
Professors identified several target areas for clarification, most notably the interdisciplinary Harvard College Courses intended to help replace the Core...