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...fewer firms control 75% of the market. In the oil business, the top four companies account for less than 20% of sales. By contrast, four auto firms control 70% of the market, while four steel companies have 44% of that business, and four corporations have 58% of all aluminum sales...
Some American officials say that this deficit is partially caused by restrictive import barriers that make it hard to sell products other than wheat, rice, aluminum and other natural resources. Japanese officials, however, maintain that they no longer discourage foreign companies...
...twice-divorced Mackey "chews on his gun sights" in whisky-fired night sweats. Welborn (one separation, compulsively neat) hangs upside down on an aluminum bar for his bad back, tormented by the loss of his altar-boy faith. But the blue knights possess a unique talent: as Captain Woofer, their boss, puts it, "Nobody's asking anybody to solve anything. I just like the way you two seem to clear every homicide." Seem is the operative word: they once convinced the department that a local cocaine dealer had committed suicide with a hatchet. As for nabbing real and careful...
...Union. But while the U.S. Government has stopped trade by some American companies, foreign firms have sometimes flouted U.S. policy. The French, for example, signed a contract last September to build the steel factory that Armco could not. And after Alcoa was forbidden last year to construct a Soviet aluminum smelter, a West German firm went ahead with the project...
...masterpieces. The fist-size organ beats 100,000 times a day, and over a lifetime pumps enough blood through the 60,000-mile circulatory system to fill 13 million bbl. The Utah heart, dubbed the Jarvik 7 for its designer, Robert Jarvik, is made of plastic and aluminum and powered by electricity. The implant operation will be performed by Utah Surgeon William DeVries. He will cut away the heart's lower chambers (the ventricles), leaving the upper ones (the atria) intact. Then he will sew Dacron fittings to the aorta, pulmonary artery and atria. The artificial heart, actually...