Word: localizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That plays to local resentment of federal agents, which is running high, in part because almost everybody will suffer from the bank's shutdown. The town government has already laid off a third of its workers, including the town manager, and is down to two police officers. During the town-council meeting last Thursday, Cherry, who is also mayor, doubled her fists and vowed that if anyone tried to make her resign her city post, "I'll give 'em some knuckle puddin'." She had a request for the council. Now that she has lost her job and her $4 million...
...classified as nuclear--like the one at the JCO uranium-processing plant at Tokaimura, not far from Tokyo [WORLD, Oct. 11]--seems to get wide media coverage. This event, though certainly serious, was on par with other industrial accidents that occur with some frequency and generally get only local attention. Unfortunately, workers are regularly killed and injured in chemical plants, refineries and manufacturing facilities, occasionally with some release of a hazardous chemical...
...Summers is not the only European sex chain with international ambitions. Germany's Beate Uhse--which also takes an upmarket, Main Street approach to marketing erotic paraphernalia--stunned local financial markets in May when its initial public offering of 8.4 million shares was 63 times oversubscribed. It is now one of Germany's hottest stocks, trading in the $19 range. Beate Uhse is likewise expanding operations elsewhere in Europe and beyond. In September the company acquired a chain of 44 "erotic discount centers," plus a Dutch mail-order company that offers a full range of sex toys, videos and publications...
Transplanting a homegrown sex business onto distant shores will doubtless prove risky. Gold hopes to avoid offending local sensibilities by going the franchise route. "It helps us to have someone who understands the local culture," she says. So far, Ann Summers' Dublin store is the only one that has drawn opposition. Downtown merchants--saying a sex shop, no matter how posh, doesn't belong on a main shopping avenue--tried to get it moved to a side street. But the opposing retailers could not find any legal reason to keep the shop off O'Connell Street, and the company turned...
...introductions, punctuality, tipping and so on for each area and all the specific countries therein. This way you'll know not to blow your nose in public in Belgium, where it's considered an offensive gesture. Or not to eat everything on your plate in Taiwan. Knowing the local language is an advantage in getting acquainted with others and being accepted. But if you're not fluent, says Sabath, "one way to successfully conduct business is to become knowledgeable about the country's customs and manners...