Word: concerns
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...fanfare had barely quieted down after Sony's buyout of Columbia Pictures when the Japanese were at it again. Last week Japan's largest communications ( concern, Fujisankei, paid $150 million to buy a 25% stake in Britain's hottest record company, Virgin Music Group. Fujisankei's holding is the biggest Japanese share in any British company. The deal will give Fujisankei, which owns the daily newspaper Sankei Shimbun and a music and video company called Pony Canyon, entree to the West. Says joint chairman Hiroaki Shikanai: "We want to dispatch our thoughts and our culture to the world...
...future of the trade depends in large part on Hong Kong and Japan, the big consumers. Officials of both places have expressed deep concern at the catastrophic losses to Africa's herds and have vowed to place the preservation of the elephant ahead of the interests of the trade. In Lausanne that commitment will be tested. Japan has made admirable strides to restrict the trade, but its long-term stand remains a wild card. "We, of course, pay close attention to other countries' opinions," said a spokesman for the Japanese government. "We have not fixed our position." The Japanese have...
Gorbachev's concern over labor unrest is well grounded. Since last July, when Soviet coal miners went on a three-week strike to protest their squalid living conditions and the government caved in to their demands, long-suffering Soviet workers have found work stoppages a potent weapon. So have restive national groups. For more than a month, railways have been blocked between the tiny Caucasus republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia, which are battling for control of the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. The blockade has severely curtailed supplies of food, medicine and gasoline in Armenia. Last week coal miners...
Ultimately, the fate of the proposed federal standards depends on the public's concern over the air people breathe. Even corporate giants recognize that they can no longer simply dig in their heels and resist demands for clean air. Chrysler vice chairman Gerald Greenwald noted in August that automakers had hurt their credibility by stubbornly opposing most new regulations. And while GM's Stempel attacked the House vote last week, he acknowledged that the subcommittee had at least cleared up confusion over what the new tail-pipe standards would be. For all its past intransigence, Detroit may be ready...
UMass administrators have indicated they don't want to begin laying off employees, but Casey said that will be a key concern of the fledgling union...