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...businessmen would think of making at home. Technical instructions are frequently printed in English instead of the local language, prices are quoted only in dollars, and English measurements given where the metric system is used. U.S. appliance makers are missing a booming market overseas because they refuse to adjust to the varying electric voltages abroad. Electric turbine makers often do not gear their powerful and complicated products down to the more modest needs of emerging nations. There are, said Hodges, "many cases of just plain incompetent or careless business practices...
There were no civic receptions and none of the high-level contact that marked the tour of the 70-member HRO a year ago. Instead, Sproul said, "It was easy for the audience to surround us and meet us. It was easy for us to adjust to different conditions. It was impossible for us to be an American colony...
...most Americans, Minneapolis-Honeywell is a familiar name on the trusty thermostats that make unnecessary that trip downstairs to adjust the furnace. Heating controls still account for a third of the company's $596 million annual sales, but Honeywell today is as comfortable in outer space as it is in the basement. It is now the world's largest and most sophisticated manufacturer of automatic control systems, turning out 13,000 products so diverse that they encompass a 600 microswitch and a $3,000,000 electronic data processing system. "We pride ourselves," says a Honeywell executive, "on being...
Kasprzycki remarked that after centuries in which Polish youth worshipped national military heroes, the present high school generation has made the Soviet osmonauts its models. The change in their attitude reflects a general recognition within Poland that the nation must adjust to the "concrete and probably irvocable reality," of Russian influence. Polish military heroes, martyred for patriotism, can no longer be held up as national ideals for in an age of atomic weapons, as Kasprzycki put it, "there is no longer a place for reasonless heroism...
...puts up the operating capital and runs the hotel. Two-thirds of the gross operating profit goes to the hotel's owners, one third to Hilton. This method enables Hilton to extend his chain rapidly without putting himself deeply into debt. He gives his local managers autonomy to adjust to local conditions and to set rates (which vary from $14 a night in London for a single to $5.75 in Berlin). The proof of the system's success is that every one of the Hilton hotels abroad that has gone through its initial shakedown period is earning money...