Word: corps
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...manage in a difficult situation," says ING Baring Furman Selz managing director Maryann Keller, who has studied Japanese industry for 30 years. Once unthinkable, the idea that foreigners might "save" Japanese companies is becoming commonplace. Witness Merrill Lynch and its absorption of Yamaichi Securities, or General Electric Capital Corp. and its $6.5 billion takeover of one of Japan's biggest leasing companies. Or Goodyear's bid to control Sumitomo Rubber Industries. If it is shameful to be acquired by foreigners, at least Nissan president Hanawa is far from alone...
...worked as a tour guide in Alaska for three months and then a volunteer for the National Civilian Community Corp, a program started by President Clinton...
Harvard has contracted with Stamford, Connecticut-based STOP Inc., whose clients include Raytheon Corp., Ford Motor Co. and General Electric...
...produce sun-visor brackets for Chevrolets and Pontiacs. Over the following decade, Stronach pulled together a team of mostly German and Austrian tool-and-die workers to make more parts for more cars, and in 1970 he and some partners took over an aerospace-parts company called Magna Electronics Corp...
...read with horror your article about the terminator gene the Monsanto Corp. is developing to remove the ability of a plant's seeds to reproduce [ENVIRONMENT, Feb. 1]. Your statement that no "serious scientist" thinks dire forecasts of accidental widespread sterilization of natural flora will come to pass brings to mind many other past assertions. Weren't we told that DDT was a safe pesticide and that pouring tons of waste into our waters was a safe form of disposal? The only thing a "serious" scientist should be thinking today is that we really know very little about the long...