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Foreign companies have been enticed into Spain by low taxes, cheap credit and guarantees that they could repatriate capital and profits; as a result, Chrysler, Fiat, ITT, Firestone, British Leyland and 3M Co. are among those that have invested heavily. In return, the foreign-owned companies have trained Spanish managers; for the first time the country has the beginnings of an entrepreneurial class. As a newcomer to industrialization, Spain also has benefited from up-to-date plant and equipment, giving it a competitive edge on countries like Britain that industrialized long...
Underwritten by the 3M Company (Scotch tape, etc.), which contributed $105,000 of the show's $140,000 cost, VD Blues is, in fact, as timely as anything that is likely to appear on TV this fall. Gonorrhea, which many people may believe was eliminated with the advent of penicillin, is epidemic in the U.S. today, and even more dangerous syphilis is not far behind. According to public health authorities, there were 700,000 cases of gonorrhea reported in the first six months of 1972, with many thousands more unreported...
...done better at making copiers. Though it has only one model and has marketed that for only about two years, IBM is believed already to be No. 3 in the field, behind Xerox and 3M. (Its gains, however, seem to have come at the expense of such concerns as 3M, Addressograph Multigraph, SCM, Sperry Rand and Dennison, rather than Xerox, which retains three-fourths of the global copier market...
...such delays result in lost sales. Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing was a recent victim of U.S. bureaucracy. Though it developed magnetic tape, it lost a substantial sale to the Russians because its export license remained mired for so long in Washington offices that the Soviets took their business to 3M's imitators in Western Europe...
...lands on a square that requires him to draw special cards, one of which might send him to the laryngitis ward, similar to Monopoly's jail. Other cards may trigger Cabinet shakeups or a kickback scandal. Play continues until one candidate collects 270 electoral votes. MR. PRESIDENT (3M Co.; $8.95) is a game for two to four players who campaign for popular or electoral votes. According to the directions, each party fields a candidate for President and Vice President and "attempts to win the election by campaigning, advertising and debating throughout the nation." Fictitious names are used. For example...