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...speaking employees to meet their needs. Says Pentti Somerto, managing director of the Finnish Employers' Confederation: "Young people feel it is not patriotic to learn Russian." By contrast, 92% of Finns study English as a second language. Helsinki is shamelessly Western, a triumph of capitalistic materialism, replete with Cartier jewelry and Sassoon-trained hairstylists...
...since the days of Columbus. Cortes and Cartier has America had such allure for fortune seekers from abroad. Throughout the turbulent 1970s more and more Europeans. Japanese and even Arabs looked to the U.S. as a haven of political stability and the world's biggest, most lucrative marketplace. A cheap dollar in relation to their strong currencies made American ventures all the more attractive. Foreign investment in U.S. firms has surged from $13.2 billion in 1970 to $65.5 bill ion last year...
...When Knapp asked what she thought of his magazine, Rense replied: "Boring and poorly edited." She was hired on the spot. With a monthly circulation of 558,000, Digest in the past year carried more than 1,400 pages of high-tone ads (Ferrari, Cartier, Courvoisier) and had revenues of $32 million. More than a third of its readers are corporate board members, and one-fifth are millionaires...
...past, counterfeit goods were returned by the Customs Service to the exporter. But after appeals from Cartier and some 50 other manufacturers that have banded together in the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition, the Los Angeles officials became the first in the U.S. to take advantage of a 1978 law enabling the Customs Service to confiscate counterfeit property and destroy...
...squashed shipment of watches represents no more than a fraction of the counterfeit goods that move in international trade every day. Counterfeits are a problem for such other well-known brand-name products as Levi Strauss blue jeans, Puma running shoes, and Johnnie Walker Scotch whisky. Cartier's hope is that the steamroller tactics will help encourage governments around the world to take whatever steps are necessary to crush the counterfeiters...