Word: factor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paper agreements were subject to loose interpretation by inexperienced Chinese partners. Says Martin Posth, a West German who is deputy managing director of Volkswagen's joint venture in Shanghai: "You need the right partner in the right area, and you need to examine the existing infrastructure. But the human factor is the real yardstick for the success of a joint venture. Machinery can be bought and you can find funding, but you cannot buy qualified management...
...boosting their U.S. prices to compensate for the rise of their currencies against the dollar, even if it meant cutting into their profit margins. "The average foreign producer is probably selling at a loss right now," says Stephen Roach, a senior economist at the Morgan Stanley investment firm. Another factor is a reluctance among many U.S. businesses, which feel content with America as their main marketplace, to take advantage of the falling dollar to expand their sales abroad. Says Vladimir Pucik, assistant professor of international business at the University of Michigan: "What many American companies are doing is concentrating...
...factor behind the speed of the market's descent was the almost complete computerization of the New York exchange and other markets. There is immense dispute, even days after the fact, as to what part computers that make trades semiautomatically played in touching off the gigantic volume of sell orders. Taking no chances, however, the Big Board after the Monday debacle instituted restrictions on so-called program trades of large portfolios of stock carried out by computer, in order to damp down price swings...
...based holding company that controls, among other things, the Grand Union supermarket chain, French publishing interests and vast stretches of Northeast U.S. timberland. Goldsmith's profit: $450 million. Having fled the market, Goldsmith declared, "I am a spectator, and will remain a spectator for the time being." An important factor that prompted Goldsmith to bail out of the market was the stubborn U.S. trade deficit, which, he had assumed, would eventually cause interest rates to rise and stock prices to fall. Said he: "This is exactly what has happened...
Harvard (6-3 overall) hopes to overcome the experience factor tomorrow with brute power...