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...Japan's hidebound business tradition. "When we started Softbank," says Son, "we didn't have money, we didn't have experience, people, talent or infrastructure. That was the first stage, and now we are on to the second and third stages." He likes to tell the tale of his joint venture with Murdoch: it was last April, and Murdoch's office called to ask if the Softbank chairman would speak at a News Corp. reception in Tokyo. Son's assistant, protective of his schedule and not recognizing the Murdoch name, dutifully turned down the request. "'Wow, no!' I told...
...people live far better than the number implies, since the prices of goods and services remain relatively low. The Chinese can buy cars, appliances, TVs, pagers, cell phones, computers--all the expensive gadgetry of advanced industrialism. Private enterprises have expanded to make up 13.5% of the economy, and joint ventures account for 38%; state-run production has dwindled...
...pleased that our own corporate behemoth, Harvard, has solved its troubles with the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). Just when the union members picketing outside Mass. Hall were getting warmer weather and more tourists to witness their discontent with the University, HUCTW has ratified a joint HUCTW-University agreement...
...joint effort brought together academics, business leaders and government officials in an effort to bridge the gap among the public, private and non-governmental sectors...
...care about the issue. Albright arrived armed with a package of proposals to make the accession of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic to the western alliance more palatable to the Yeltsin government. Included were a charter to link Russia to the alliance, unilateral arms reductions and a joint NATO-Russian brigade for peacekeeping operations. "It is no longer us versus you or you versus us," she told a news conference. "We are on the same side." Albright later met with a pale and wan Boris Yeltsin, and told reporters that the ailing President seemed "on top of his game...