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...relations and complicated distribution system pose an unfair burden to red-blooded American business. Why, they ask, do three Japanese glassmakers control nearly all of the $2 billion sheet-glass market in Japan despite efforts of American producers to sell quality products there? A recent study by the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan concluded that an exclusionary distribution system is just one of many problems facing foreign companies in that country, where real estate is expensive and labor is in short supply. Still, the Japanese market has become increasingly open to foreigners...
Some business leaders prefer to characterize the relationship between city and suburbs as "symbiotic." The city provides services, says James Wallace, president of the Chamber of Commerce of Southern New Jersey, and the suburbs provide the tax base: "Each without the other simply could not get along." But the argument that this is a fair trade is offensive to the people of south Camden whose neighborhood reeks of human excrement. Every year these residents, the majority of whom are poor, must pony up $275 for sewage treatment -- the same amount that rich suburbanites pay in communities with names like Tavistock...
...TURNER, THE EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT of CNN and no relation to his boss, says Turner's personal transformation was, at some level, the result of a professional one: Turner's adjusting to his new environment. "He went from the hearty camaraderie of the Chamber of Commerce and locker-room crowds to the world of great leaders." More important, what Turner recognized in the mid-'80s was that his roller-coaster emotional life, which had served him well in his risk-taking entrepreneurial days, was not particularly useful in running an international company with long-term ambitions and an estimated worth...
...force is rewriting the initiative, and the watered-down version is expected to avoid any mention of using taxpayer money. Instead, local employers will simply be asked to consider hiring minorities when recruiting for positions that can't be filled locally. Says J. Steven Horman, president of the Dubuque Chamber of Commerce: "I'm convinced that not one single job will be lost...
...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...