Word: kodaks
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American companies are eager to do business in VIETNAM. Citibank, Philip Morris, Mobil, General Electric and Caterpillar are said to be lobbying for an end to the U.S. economic embargo. Coca-Cola and Kodak are already well known there, thanks to black-market sales. Last month the Backer Spielvogel Bates advertising agency, one of the world's largest, hosted a marketing conference in Ho Chi Minh City. Said Carl Spielvogel, chairman of the firm: "We believe there is an enormous potential there, and in Indochina generally. We intend to be pioneers in this market...
...spend their days pounding away at keyboards. An increasing number are responding in a white-collar way: with lawsuits. Hundreds of injured telephone reservationists, cashiers, word processors and journalists, McCool among them, are suing computer manufacturers, blaming the machines for their disabilities. IBM, Apple Computers, AT&T and Kodak's Atex- division, which produces a word-processing system designed for journalists, have all been named in the suits, which demand damages of up to a $1 million or more per victim. Last June, a U.S. district judge in Brooklyn lumped together more than 44 suits against 63 manufacturers...
...build new factories. But they contend that an all-out attack on it next year would take money from people's pockets and hurt the economy. Acknowledging the point, the Perot camp says its plan would not take effect until 1994 at the earliest. Says John White, an Eastman Kodak vice president who was the principal architect of the plan: "If this economy were to continue to be like it is, I certainly wouldn't start this plan. I think you would have to look to stimulus...
...returned home to Kentucky to raise horses. Mort Meyerson, Perot's chief business aide, who once played a major role in the campaign, is busy running Perot's computer-services company. John White, the principal architect of Perot's economic plan, returned last week to his job with Eastman Kodak in Rochester, New York. He has no connection with the campaign and doesn't think Perot should run, concerned that a Perot loss could drag the plan down with...
...Kodak offers a new way to view family snapshots...