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...companies that do business successfully in Japan, including such household names as Coca-Cola and Elizabeth Arden, began with a firm commitment to crack the market, however long it might take. "If the Japanese get the impression that you're not committed to business for the long term, you're in trouble," says Robert J. Sievers, who just completed a three-year stint as president of Du Pont Japan. Echoes James Abegglen, director of the Graduate School of Comparative Culture at Tokyo's Sophia University: "There must be a conviction that says you are going to be in Japan...
...entrepreneurs and village collectives have now expanded to all kinds of other businesses--inns, restaurants, stores, tailor shops, beauty parlors and light manufacturing like assembly of TV sets--often in competition with government-owned businesses. Some entrepreneurs have even opened services in major cities to recruit maids and other household help for busy urban families. Businessmen can hire workers privately, a practice that conventional Marxists regard as inherently exploitative. Legally, no private entrepreneur is supposed to employ more than 15 hired hands, but local Communist Party officials often ignore that limit...
...spent most of his life in the thick of politics, Deng has remained unusually close to his family. Since the death of his father in 1938, his household has included his stepmother Xia Baigen. He helps support an aunt and uncle, 86 and 83, respectively, who still live at the old Sichuan family home in Paifang. After the Cultural Revolution, he arranged for his son Deng Pufang to receive medical treatment in the U.S. He is now director of China's Welfare Fund for the Handicapped. Deng Zhifang, 34, is a graduate researcher in physics at New York's University...
...reason for the rise is the increasing income of women, who make up 57% of the new shareholders. A New York Stock Exchange study showed that the typical new investor is female, 34, married, works in a professional or technical position, has a $2,200 portfolio and an annual household income of about...
Even its adversaries would have to admit that in the six years since its founding, Moral Majority has become a household name Then why was the Rev. Jerry Falwell, creator of the New Right lobby, announcing last week in Washington that while Moral Majority was not exactly going out of business, it would henceforth be subsumed by a new citizens' action group, called the Liberty Federation...