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...Mitsui action was the third one filed against Japanese firms in the past month. On June 30 the FBI charged Hitachi Ltd., Japan's fourth largest computer maker, and 14 of its employees with conspiring to steal IBM secrets. Last week a federal grand jury in San Francisco handed down similar indictments stemming from the case against Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and four of its employees...
This movie tie-in all but fell into the lap of Hershey, which sold some $35 million worth of Reese's Pieces last year. E.T.'s producers offered to use the Hershey product only after Mars, Inc., maker of M & Ms, turned it down. Hershey Vice President Jack Dowd then flew to Hollywood to see still photos from the film and make sure that the candy was not going to be in a monster film...
When the remake is as enchanting as E.T., no one can complain. But a prodigiously gifted film maker like Spielberg might hold even his youthful fans if he were to expand his range and make other kinds of movies-as Lucas and John Carpenter and Brian De Palma might. The stray adventurous mogul might be persuaded to finance their ventures into the adult world. And the baby-boom audience, just now approaching early middle age, might follow them. All this could happen tomorrow, and nobody could guarantee that the movie industry would break another box-office record. But the eager...
...underling: "For these guys in their 50s, computers just aren't part of their ethic." Such an attitude is now widespread. "The idea of an executive sitting in his office programming a computer is, well, just not realistic," insists Ray Stata, president of Analog Devices, a computer-parts maker. John Pignataro, vice president of data processing for the Sheraton hotel chain, agrees. "Tools like the personal computer will be most useful at lower levels. I think those who will really use the personal computer could be considered the doer, and the executive will be, as he always has been...
...consuming. "If I could talk to the computer as easily as I talk to my administrative assistant, yes, I'd use it," he explains. "But it's a lot of work to punch in questions. My assistant is easier to work with." Says Kerry Orr of computer maker Control Data Corp. in Atlanta: "Most executives are intimidated by a keyboard." While computer firms insist that even the most ham-handed executive can be taught to operate a computer in a matter of hours, executive resistance remains high. Orr observes, "They normally are not honest enough...