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...stereo system is so effective that the Canadian subsidiary of Britain's Cambridge Instruments Ltd., the world's leading manufacturer of scanning electron microscopes, plans to market the Chatfield 3-D adapter in the near future for about $6,500 (the microscopes themselves run from $40,000 to $80,000). Chatfield's new technique might even be based on a bigger scale-as the basis for 3-D television...
...troubling questions about the supervision, efficiency and even the honesty of international banking. Last week the European financial community received two more shocks. Jittery depositors drew so much money out of Vienna's small Allgemeine Wirtschaftsbank that it was forced to shut down. Much more important, Lloyds Bank, Ltd., one of Britain's most prestigious, disclosed that its branch...
...protect birds is to defend humanity" seems a strange slogan for a whisky distiller. But then, Keizo Saji, 54, chairman and president of Japan's Suntory Ltd., and coiner of the slogan, is a rather strange bird himself. Every year, in addition to contributing one-third of the profits of his privately owned, Osaka-based company (annual sales: $966 million) to an employee benefits program, he contributes an other third to charitable and cultural causes, nota bly the preservation of the 490 species of birds found in Japan...
Four years ago, geologists for Queensland Mines Ltd. came across a tiny plot of ground in Australia's remote northern Nabarlek region that turned out to be the richest uranium deposit in the world. Assuming that mining rights could easily be obtained from the aboriginal owners, the Australian company quickly signed contracts to sell $60 million worth of ore to Japanese firms. What the mining executives failed to take into account was the aborigines' reluctance to disturb the green ants who live near the site...
Long before the October war exposed the vulnerability of Israel's vaunted defense machine, the state-owned, supersecret Israel Aircraft Industries Ltd., which builds and services planes for peace and war, was showing signs of strain. Its first two tries at building executive jets seemed to have flopped expensively, and its attempts to refurbish and resell old planes appeared to be sputtering. Shortly before the war, Moshe Dayan, then head of the Defense Ministry, tried to oust the company's boss, Al Schwimmer...