Word: archey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decades of healthy annual advances, American nonfarm productivity growth declined and sometimes reversed after 1973. Last year it grew nearly 3%, much of it due to blood-curdling corporate restructuring that was marked by increased automation, layoffs and lower wages. "The Europeans have barely begun that process," says William Archey, a senior vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...
...Japan has outspent the U.S. on investment and research, devoting nearly 3% of economic spending to nondefense research, while American R. and D. spending remained under 2%. Four Japanese companies -- Hitachi, Toshiba, Canon and Fuji -- each captured more American patents in 1989 than any single U.S. firm. Predicts William Archey, senior vice president for policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "We haven't even begun to see the products of that investment...