Word: malmgren
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...steel industry has also become weak, inefficient and a drain on the American economy. Steel executives have allowed their mills to become outmoded. Observes Harald Malmgren, a trade consultant in Washington: "When you protect any sector, you are shoring up sick companies and prolonging bad management." The steel industry has not, for the most part, used the breathing space offered by protection to modernize its plants. Instead, National Steel Corp. bought some savings and loan associations, and U.S. Steel borrowed $3 billion to acquire Marathon...
...Malmgren, a trade consultant in Washington, D.C. Japanese companies last year garnered about 33% of all world chip sales, up from 27% in 1980, and not far behind the U.S. share of 43%. Says an official of the Electronic Industries Association of Japan: "The chip war must be more and more intensified, as time goes by, between Japan and the U.S. That's the industrial destiny of both...
...roles were well defined. The U.S. decided, and the other allies complained." The fact that the process is now much more complicated is due in great part to the phenomenal successes of America's post-World War II policy of reconstructing both Western Europe and Japan. Says Harald Malmgren, former U.S. assistant special representative for trade negotiations: "We intended to build independent, strong allies. We're now in a position of parents who have realized that our children have grown...