History of Honda, Corporate profile and divisions

Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, as well as the world's largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume, producing more than 14 million internal combustion engines each year. Honda surpassed Nissan in 2001 to become the second-largest Japanese automobile manufacturer. As of August 2008[update], Honda surpassed Chrysler as the fourth largest automobile manufacturer in the United States. ...

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How Chris Christie Did His Homework

 Like a stand-up comedian working out-of-the-way clubs, Chris Christie travels the townships and boroughs of New Jersey­, places like Hackettstown and Raritan and Scotch Plains, sharpening his riffs about the state’s public employees, whom he largely blames for plunging New Jersey into a fiscal death spiral. In one well-worn routine, for instance, the governor reminds his audiences that, until he passed a recent law that changed the system, ...

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A Cautious Faith in the Army

 Mohamed El DahshanCairo, Feb. 3. The Egyptian army gained the trust of some by not using force against protesters. CAIRO — In December 2007, six weeks before Kosovo’s independence I was privileged to sit in Pristina with a group of young, idealistic rising stars in the Kosovar political scene, as they tirelessly discussed their thoughts, hopes and plans for their nation to be born strong, democratic, dynamic, and politically mature. And I ...

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