Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...barnstorming buyers ran into two trade barriers of another sort: culture shokku and a lack of aggressive salesmanship by some of the Americans they met. In Atlanta, Keigo Yamada, executive managing director of Ito-Yokado, a chain of discount department stores with an annual sales volume of $1.3 billion, shied away from a meal of grits and complained that he was meeting the wrong people. Yamada wanted American sportswear modified to suit Japanese tastes and sizes but, he says, was told "that they would have to ask their supervisors in New York." A Mitsubishi buyer offered Jose Lopez...
...collected $56.5 billion for their products, but it cost an additional $59 billion for labor-packinghouse workers, store clerks, waiters, et al.-to get those products from the farm to the table at home or in restaurants. Operating expenses for food retailers have been rising particularly fast. One major chain, Supermarkets General (Pathmark), expects labor, energy and tax outlays to swell about 10% each. Yet supermarket managers complain that competition is so keen they cannot raise prices fast enough to ease the pinch on profit margins...
...believed, like Doc Peret, that somewhere inside each man is a biological center for the exercise of courage, a piece of tissue that might be touched and sparked and made to respond, a chemical maybe or a lone chromosome that when made to fire would produce chain reactions of valor that even the biles could not drown. A filament, a fuse, that if ignited would release the full energy of what might be. There was a Silver star twinkling somewhere inside...
...Iran was a very minor client. Bell had sold only 15 helicopters to all of Asia during a four-year period in the mid-1960s, in comparison with 2,000 helicopters a year to the U.S. armed forces. Further, Bell is only one division of Textron, which also makes chain saws, roller bearings, zippers and myriad other products that claimed Miller's attention...
...politically ambitious publisher with an unsavory past buys the New York Times and uses its front pages to win the upcoming election for the Administration and himself. It can't happen here, perhaps, though William Randolph Hearst did use his chain of dailies in an unsuccessful attempt to win the 1904 Democratic presidential nomination. It could happen this month in France, where a Hearstian press lord named Robert Hersant is marshaling his paper's political coverage to help the ruling center-right coalition in the March parliamentary elections, and to help keep himself in the National Assembly...