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...national networks, declined to purchase the show They cited reports from West German correspondents in the U.S. that Holocaust which focuses on the suffering of a Jewish family and the rise of a young SS officer, verged "dangerously close to soap opera." Eventually WDR, largest of West Germany's regional channels, bought the show for $500,000, then arranged for other stations to join in a simultaneous broadcast that covered the country. Explained Program Director Günter Rohrbach: "A production on this subject cannot be ignored in West Germany, of all places...
Normally, companies are on the receiving end of lawsuits about discrimination against workers on the basis of sex and race. But last week Sears, Roebuck, the world's largest retailer (annual sales: more than $17 billion), upset that pattern...
...interstate trade only if they could prove they would provide a service that existing carriers could not. Thanks to an antitrust exemption granted by Congress in 1948 truckers have been allowed to set their own rates, and they have prospered greatly. Indeed, over the past eight years the eight largest truck lines have earned an average of more than 20% a year on shareholders' equity, a return higher than that enjoyed by the leading firms in such high-profit industries as oil refining, auto, drug and computer manufacturing...
Volvo badly needed the leverage that the Norwegian deal would have provided. Though it is Sweden's largest company (1978 sales: $4.3 billion), its share of the vitally important U.S. and European auto markets is precariously thin, and profits at home have been squeezed by Sweden's high wages and stagnant productivity. With the price of a top-of-the-line Volvo now $16,000 in most markets Gyllenhammar had been counting on his Norwegian connection for the money needed to develop a radically designed lightweight vehicle that would give the company broader market appeal...
...like his dandruff and allergy attacks and how he is going to get a date. Dr. David Bruce Banner, the mild-mannered physicist, agonizes over his uncontrollable "hulkouts." This mix of fantasy and foibles zapped teenagers, and by the mid-'70s, Marvel had become the world's largest comic book company...