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...market for large computers there are no sporting rivalries like Coke vs. Pepsi, Hertz vs. Avis, or Heinz vs. Hunt's. It is only IBM against the field. Big Blue controls almost 63% of the worldwide market, while an assortment of relatively puny competitors gets the rest. But one of those companies, Detroit's Burroughs (1985 sales: $5 billion), is determined to acquire one of its fellow underdogs and give Big Blue a run for its data. Burroughs has chosen as its partner-to-be a somewhat larger competitor, Sperry of New York City (fiscal 1986 sales: $5.7 billion...
Many companies become converts to crisis planning only after they have been shaken to their corporate core. That was the experience of H.J. Heinz, the consumer-products conglomerate. The firm attracted unwelcome attention last year when its Star-Kist subsidiary was accused of shipping 1 million cans of rancid tuna in Canada. Even after the Canadian Prime Minister impounded the fish, Heinz executives refused to speak to the press or the public. Concedes Thomas McIntosh, a Heinz spokesman: "It was ignorance. We didn't know what was happening. It was a truly embarrassing episode." Two months ago, Heinz belatedly began...
Kissinger Associates' selected clientele of international conglomerates and financial institutions is as top secret as the papers Kissinger once dealt with, but like all such secrets the names tend to leak: Volvo, Fiat, Atlantic Richfield, Fluor Corp., H.J. Heinz Co., S.G. Warburg investment bank in Britain. Foreign governments, however, need not apply. "We are not lobbyists," Kissinger says sternly. "We do not deal with the U.S. Government on behalf of any client...
...Speaker Tip O'Neill commented that the President sounded as if he was "trying to stall for time." Said Republican Senator Danforth: "One speech does not make a policy." Reagan, however, did shore up resistance by some Republicans against the Democrat-led drive for protectionism. Said Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz: "We have to have legislation that at least matches the President's rhetoric and perhaps goes beyond it." But, he mused, "Are we going to limit presidential discretion? That is the $64,000 question...
...guarding the devastated areas did little or nothing to assist in the rescue effort. Moreover, Mexican officials were allegedly more anxious to bulldoze ruined buildings than to proceed with the painstaking / rescue work, apparently out of the mistaken fear that decomposing corpses in the ruins would cause epidemics. Carl Heinz Wolbert, a West German police detective and volunteer rescue expert, wept in frustration at the resulting delays. Said he: "We can touch the people who are trapped. In Mexico it is impossible to get them out. In Germany it would be very possible." Admitted a senior Mexican official: "In situations...