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...sale is worth more than $1 billion. The most likely purchaser is the Italian automaker Fiat S.p.A. But the Soviets are not about to miss out on any better offers: they have hired Bear, Stearns, the Wall Street investment banking house, to provide them with some American know-how. Bear, Stearns is bullish on the U.S.S.R. Says Brian Murray, senior managing director: "Foreign companies who position themselves will really reap the benefits...
Smallest Advertisement Using a powerful microscope, IBM researchers lined up individual xenon atoms to spell out the company's initials. That clever display of know-how got magnified pictures of the minuscule logo into newspapers all over the world -- for free...
...course, this is only one of my ideas, but it is enough to show you that I have the energy and know-how to make Harvard University, as Trump University, an even classier place to get a liberal arts education. My people will be in touch with your people. Sincerely, The Donald Trump Tower...
Most important, as a working laboratory of labor relations and manufacturing know-how, Saturn will help answer one of the most pressing questions of the 1990s: Can America compete with the Japanese? Automaking may be a relatively old field, at least compared with supercomputer building or gene splicing. But the automobile, with its 10,000 parts and ever increasing complexity, remains one of the most challenging products to manufacture and a telling measure of an industrial society's capabilities. "Saturn will have enormous psychological impact on American business," says Lester Thurow, dean of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management...
...race to bring capitalist know-how to Hungary has produced a contest between two telecommunications companies, Colorado-based U S West and Atlanta's Contel Cellular. In a $10 million joint venture with the Hungarian state telephone company, U S West is installing a cellular-phone system in Budapest that is to begin service by the end of the year. Contel has linked with private Hungarian partners to form a competing $35 million venture that will start service in Budapest by early...