Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...merit of domestic mergers is a matter of debate. Friendly unions of two firms may help the combined company compete against foreign rivals. Philip Morris, for example, hopes its purchase of Kraft will create a more formidable ) opponent to the West European consumer goods giants Nestle and Unilever. And because most industries now operate in a global marketplace, there is decreasing danger that mergers will stifle U.S. competition and raise consumer prices...
...Well, the hardest subject today, I guess, is the foreign buying up of America. I'd like to turn that question around. What I am for is reducing our deficits and increasing our net national savings so we don't have to rely on foreign capital. I think that relying on this much foreign capital is very dangerous to our economic and our political health...
...investment banker helping foreign companies invest here, aren't you profiting from the very thing you're criticizing...
When Marcos failed to respond by a 5 p.m. deadline, prosecutors decided to proceed with the case. Reagan then met with senior White House advisers and was informed that an indictment would not affect U.S. foreign policy interests. Though Reagan was reportedly worried that Marcos might have to go to jail, the President said the case "may not come to my desk at all." The remark was telling: to the Administration, the once powerful Marcos had become a pesky legal problem, and no more...
...global competition, two leaders of the white-administered South African Rugby Board last week struck an unprecedented deal with the anti-apartheid black Rugby Union and the outlawed African National Congress. The parties urged the formation of a single rugby association that could field an integrated team for foreign tournaments...