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...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...
...rising costs of fuel, labor and materials. Critics retort that gross mismanagement is the real problem. Both utilities committed themselves in the late 1970s to buy oil under long-term contracts at prices far higher than those now prevailing. Conservation has cut electrical consumption, but the companies must still incur tens of millions of dollars in expenses to dispose of oil that they are obligated to buy but do not now need...
...acquire no kudos for translating its inner doubts into hesitation. However ambivalently it has arrived at the point of decision, it must pursue the course on which it is embarked with a determination to succeed. Otherwise, it adds a reputation for incompetence to whatever controversy it is bound to incur on the merits of its decision...
...Corporation has asked the Fogg Museum of Art to create a special $3 million contingency fund to offset any operation and maintenance deficits the museum's new building may incur, and authorized the sale of some art for this fund, a University spokesman said yesterday...
Joseph D. Bertagna '73, director of sports information, said yesterday there is a real need for such a foundation because teams incur many expenses--for things such as training trips, pre-season practice sessions, and national meets--not covered by their allocated budgets...