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Finding and keeping a good distributor can be crucial. Consider how Schick captured its sizable share of Japan's $200 million safety-razor market. In the early 1960s, Schick and its rival Gillette began selling their razor blades in Japan. Both faced keen competition from Feather, a Japanese manufacturer. Schick decided to retain a prominent local distributor, Hattori. But Gillette blundered by abandoning its local agent after a few years. Japanese retailers viewed Gillette's move as arrogant, and the firm was unable to sell its products on its own. Says Jay Gwynne, president of the consumer health-products division...
...late Mao Tse-tung, his mentor and eventual nemesis, Deng has never claimed to be either a scholar or a Marxist theoretician. Nor does he possess the studied mandarin sophistication of the late Premier Chou En-lai, another longtime comrade-in-arms. Not that Deng lacks for a keen intelligence or a world view. But what he has consistently sought to impose is a preference for gradual rather than sudden change and for pragmatism over doctrine. In discussing China's second revolution recently, Deng said, "If it could enable people to improve their lives gradually, then I think the policy...
...October 1934, and continued to support Mao's approach, eventually becoming political commissar of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army. A U.S. military observer who met Deng during this period, Marine Corps Major Evans Carlson, remembered him as "short, chunky and physically tough, with a mind as keen as mustard...
...Beirut, too, supporters of Gaddafi seemed keen to show off their thirst for vengeance. An extremist group called the Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims sent a four-minute videotape to the Beirut daily AnNahar showing a blindfolded man dangling from a scaffold. The victim appeared to be Alex Collett, 64, a British journalist who had been kidnaped 13 months ago. A statement accompanying the tape claimed that Collett had been executed in answer to the American air attack, as had three hostages who were found shot in Beirut a week earlier...
...firm supporter of an accord that he said would create "genuine constituencies for peace." On the Soviet side, there has been what one State Department official terms "a marked change in attitude. They have taken an active, positive role. There is an altogether different attitude." Hermann also detects their keen desire to make the exchange agreement work. "They're bending over backwards," she says...