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These are the major findings of a public opinion survey conducted in mid-March for TIME by the research firm Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc.* The poll, of course, does not attempt to predict future attitudes toward the President and his policies. In many areas Reagan's sliding ratings match those of Jimmy Carter at a comparable period in his presidency. Carter rode the roller coaster of public opinion up and down through most of his four years in office...
Jack Gimbel, 46, has always been proud of his family name. So almost ten years ago, when he decided to open a gift shop in Maine's Boothbay Harbor, he appropriately christened it Gimbel & Sons Country Store. Last September, though, he received a letter from Gimbel Bros. Inc., the huge New York-based department store chain, asking him to change the sign on his store or face legal action. When Gimbel refused, Gimbel Bros, store sued on the grounds that by using his family name, Jack Gimbel had "irreparably damaged" the 38-store chain and was responsible...
...Japanese have grabbed this business away from traditional exporters like Cargill Inc. and Continental Grain Co. by using the high-volume, low-profit tactics that have made Japanese companies feared and formidable competitors in markets everywhere. Mitsui and Mitsubishi deny that they go further and deliberately incur losses, but U.S. traders insist that the companies in some cases do just that to expand their share of the market for American grain...
Mitsui, whose U.S. grain trading units include Gulf Coast Grain, Inc. and United Grain Co., Inc., accelerated its drive into the U.S. market in 1978, buying eight grain elevators in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Tennessee for $10.5 million from financially ailing Cook Industries. Mitsui beat out seven competitors by agreeing to the deal in just 48 hours. A year later Mi-tsui's archrival, Mitsubishi's Agrex Inc., boosted its own U.S. grain-trade investment by buying out Koppel Inc., the company's American partner, thereby becoming sole owner of a giant export elevator in Long Beach...
Such breathlessly gee-whiz reportage will inevitably strike many people as decidedly off-key in a time of economic uncertainty and strife. A poll conducted for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly and White Inc. reported in December that among other disappointments, Americans by and large feel worse off today than they did a year ago. Nor will Kahn's profile win awards for methodology. Not one of the dozen or so "typical" Americans was quoted, say, while shuffling along an unemployment line. And some readers may quarrel with the Panglossian assessment of the California raisin farmer who beams...