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Aggressive American manufacturers, who currently have about 15% of the Japanese PC market, quickly countered NEC's move with more slugging. IBM, together with the Japanese office-equipment maker Canon, announced the development of a notebook PC with a built-in printer that they would sell for $2,380. Fast-growing Dell Computer opened a subsidiary in Tokyo and began its famed direct sales to customers. In Dell's line...
Intel is also accused of playing favorites. According to one competitor, the company allegedly allocates supplies of its latest, most sought-after chips first to its biggest customers, such as PC makers IBM and Compaq, and then to smaller clients. In doing so, critics charge, Intel can determine which PC maker survives or perishes. Competitors have also raised concerns about Intel's own entry into the PC market. They complain that the company favors customers that resell Intel-made machines with its newest and best chips. Says Walter J. ("Jerry") Sanders, chairman of Advanced Micro Devices: "It's clear...
...drug, but its new use fetches a new -- and much higher -- price. Previously a treatment for cancer, Depo-Provera was approved in the U.S. in October as a contraceptive. But its maker, Upjohn, is now charging doctors and clinics around $30 for a three-month shot -- more than double its earlier price -- which means women will pay about $50. Upjohn maintains it is recouping drug-development costs, but doctors argue that research ended long ago and that many countries have used Depo-Provera as a birth-control agent for years...
Lewis engineered the rise of TLC through two major buyouts. In 1983, he led a $22.5 million buyout of McCall PatternCo., a dress-pattern maker which he sold to aBritish business four years later for $63 million...
...agree with you, Sam." That had such an impact upon me personally. It gets back to my culture point. I think the best organizations encourage that kind of openness, that kind of cross- fertilization of people's abilities. Yes, there has to be a decision maker, and there isn't any doubt as to who the decision maker is on all these issues. There wasn't in Arkansas, and there won't be in the White House...