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Every year hundreds of foreign firms offer to buy stakes in U.S. companies, and the Government barely notices. But the proposal by Fujitsu, the Japanese conglomerate, to acquire an 80% interest in Fairchild Semiconductor has begun ringing alarm bells in Washington. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger...
Their first investment was $2 million to acquire a local 5,000-acre blueberry farm. Its products are now sold under the Native American Foods label in New York City gourmet shops. After the farm venture, the Indians bought other enterprises on or near their reservations, including two radio stations...
Such views are often spread through radical study groups that have sprung up on every South Korean campus. Dabbling in authors ranging from Lenin to Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, the groups recruit promising freshmen who know little about politics or political theory and soon acquire a taste for sweeping generalities. "Basically...
HARVARD BUSINESS School provides vocational training. It isn't supposed to shape the moral character of its students, who come to Cambridge to acquire specific skills and knowledge. It's only inevitable that a few alumni will do things of which the school won't be proud, so there is...
Shuwa Investments, a family-owned real estate developer, may be America's largest Japanese landlord. The company made headlines last summer when it bought ARCO Plaza, a prime, 2.4 million-sq.-ft. piece of downtown Los Angeles, for $620 million, in the biggest real estate megadeal in California history. Since...