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...A.I.E. pays its Hong Kong employees. Soon the Chinese will be assembling A.I.E. television sets, which will be sold in the U.S. under the "Williamsons" name as well as under private labels of K-Mart and other chains. In another case, Harper's International, a Hong Kong automotive distributor, plans to build a big bus-and-truck assembly plant in Shenzhen (Shumchun), just across the border from Hong Kong. In Shenzhen, Chinese are already assembling handbags, shoes, key chains and plastic flowers for Hong Kong companies...
Ruff, a devout Mormon and father of nine children, comes by his grim views after a checkered career as a college dropout, singer, actor, stockbroker, owner of a speed-reading franchise, natural vitamin distributor and real estate investment teacher. As he concedes, "Some people say that I couldn't succeed at anything, so I became a prophet of doom." A decade ago, he was $250,000 in debt after his speed-reading schools failed and he had to declare personal bankruptcy. Today he estimates his net worth at $600,000 and reports that he has paid...
...economy, and they contribute to the prestige of the existing administration by virtue of the fact that U.S. corporations are there. There are examples of companies that have modified their policies in South Africa or withdrawn under particular circumstances. Polaroid withdrew its manufacturing operation and instructed its distributor not to distribute its products to the government for use in the infamous passbook system. That distributor did not obey those instructions. Polaroid found out about it and severed its connection completely with South Africa, and I think appropriately. Several American banks which in the past have made loans to the South...
Costing only about 200 each to make, they are sold on the streets for about $1.25. A distributor with the latest tape can make a neat profit of $50 a day. Excerpts from the Ayatullah's hit recordings...
...series, which PBS's Masterpiece Theater began showing in 1974, finished its American run in the spring of 1977-to universal wailing and desperate cries of anguish from several million devoted fans. A Manhattan distributor, Group IV, picked up the rerun rights when the PBS deal ran out. Starting at various times this month and in the next several weeks, Upstairs, Downstairs will be shown on 46 commercial stations around the country...