Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, progress is making it nigh impossible to make a killing in the live turkey market these days, Silver says. "The people today don't require it unless they grew up on a farm or something. Then they know that fresh is much better...
SELLING only 300 turkeys a year, Sage's market on Brattle St. can't match Mayflower's volume. But manager Dwight D. Perodeau was able to offer some insight into turkey farming...
...crowded U.S. market is increasingly unforgiving to any automaker, foreign or domestic, that loses its way. After a fast start, sales of the South Korean-made Hyundai Excel have plunged. While Nissan has performed well in 1989 on the strength of higher-priced models like the Maxima, it suffered from poor sales between 1985 and 1988 because of weak marketing and a stodgy product line. Says Laurel Cutler, Chrysler's vice president of consumer affairs: "There's no market for products that everybody likes just a little. Anything that's boring is vulnerable. I would say that the midsize market...
...expressing Japan's position. For example, the U.S. claims that our keiretsu-ka ((vertical integration)) of banks and other financial institutions is outrageous. I don't agree. It's an idiosyncrasy of the Japanese economy. But unless we make the structure of keiretsu-ka clear to all, the Japanese market remains very unfair to people who come from abroad to do business in Japan...
...cold war and the space race, U.S. scientists in the late 1950s began a drive to shrink the electronics necessary to guide missiles, creating lightweight devices for easy launch into space. It was the Japanese, though, who saw the value of applying miniature technology to the consumer market. In his book Made in Japan, Akio Morita tells how he proudly showed Sony's $29.95 transistor radio to U.S. retailers in 1955 and was repeatedly asked, as he made the rounds of New York City's electronics outlets, "Who needs these tiny things...