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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Royal Street businessman, shrugs when asked if his five "Bush for President" signs will stay up after the convention. "What do you think?" he asks. He calls the signs a "way to welcome people to a town. Put everybody in a good atmosphere so they'll buy...
...Japanese company, which insists that its own tests show the Samurai is safe, was determined to recover. First Suzuki offered a nationwide rebate of $2,000 off the Samurai's base price of about $8,000. Then nine Suzuki dealers in Ohio added an unusual offer: customers who buy a Samurai from them by next July will receive a free one-year, $1 million accident insurance policy. The incentives seem to be paying off. Samurai sales for July rose by nearly 200%, to 6,327 vehicles...
Western critics charge that the Japanese manipulate the Tokyo exchange. After the crash, they contend, the Finance Ministry allowed mutual funds to postpone revealing their losses, then asked banks and insurance companies to buy shares in a mass gesture of patriotism. Many brokers purportedly encouraged individual investors to load up on stocks even if it meant dipping into debt...
...Credit Suisse First Boston. Nomura won that battle with the same strategy that Japanese manufacturers employed to conquer world markets: innovative products and aggressive pricing. Among Nomura's most popular offerings are Eurobonds sold with so-called equity warrants, which give the purchaser the right to buy shares in the company that issued the bonds for a period of time at a fixed price. Such bonds allow investors to make money in Tokyo's hot stock market. Nomura first gained a foothold in Eurobonds by charging fees that undercut those of its rivals...
American parents have not suddenly grown malicious or indifferent. Many are at the mercy of economic changes. Today 50% of working mothers have husbands earning less than $20,000 a year. To support a family, buy a house and prepare for a child's future education, two incomes become essential. More than half of women with children younger than three years old work outside the home. But because society, and especially the workplace, has not caught up with these changes, the job of raising children has become more complicated...