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...Sharp's television business in the 1980s, the company was struggling and most people knew nothing about him. But when Sharp brought its liquid-crystal-display TVs to the global market, it began making record profits. To be the best, a company has to have sound knowledge about market demand, design and manufacturing?plus technological strengths. Machida has succeeded because of his company's sharper focus. Kakoli Senapati Frankfurt, Germany...
...industry without controversy. Environmentalists are wary of aquaculture in general because of pollution from fish wastes and the genetic threat to native species, and they fear that beluga farming will only feed caviar demand and further endanger stocks in the Caspian Sea, source of 90% of the world's supply...
...letting caviar retailers like Zaslavsky raise sturgeon is like letting the fox raise the chickens. The caviar trade is not exactly squeaky clean, and Optimus, the parent company of Marky's, recently agreed to pay a $1 million fine for buying smuggled caviar in 1999 to meet the frenzied demand for millennium parties...
While it became apparent that colleges across the nation would soon be struggling with the same problem, one of the first questions that faced Harvard administrators was how much, if at all, the College should expand both its physical and academic resources to meet the rising demand for private education...
Along with asking investors to demand that the fund’s management agreement with Nomura be revoked, Harvard is seeking their support for its proposal that the fund be liquidated by its board of directors and the value of its assets returned to shareholders...