Word: mille
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...business and government have banded together to form a monolithic powerhouse bent on overrunning world markets. Critics such as Senator Donald Riegle Jr. of Michigan and W.J. Sanders III, chairman of Advanced Micro Devices, a California semiconductor company, complain that Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Mill) encourages the formation of cartels and also targets promising industries for special research grants. Some economists, businessmen and politicians are calling for a U.S. industrial policy to counteract Japan's government planning...
...however, the amount of money that the Japanese government spends is not likely to be the decisive factor in who wins the computer race. In fact, Thomas Hout, a Japan expert at the Boston Consulting Group, suggests that Mill's aid might actually hurt Japanese companies if it dulls some of their individual initiative. The strength of the Japanese computer industry is its competitiveness. Some 30 manufacturers, for example, are battling it out in the market for word-processing equipment...
...such sectors as cement, pulp and paper, and transit made major adjustments to comply with the government's demand for energy conservation. Many steel companies fitted blast furnaces with recovery turbines that use the pressure at the top of the furnaces to generate electricity for other steel-mill uses. Continuous casting, in which molten metal is formed directly into products for shipment and bypasses the cooling stages, helped decrease by 10% the amount of energy required to make a ton of steel. From 1973 to 1979, Japanese planners reduced the energy needed to make cars...
Denis might also have been surprised to see his wife's career blossom just as his was ending. Born in London in 1915, he was sent to Mill Hill, a second-drawer boarding school, then went on to join the Royal Artillery. By the end of World War II, he had risen to the rank of major. There was also a brief marriage and a divorce. Denis' grandfather in Kent had discovered an effective sheep-dip and founded a company, Atlas Preservatives, to market it. After the war, Denis went to work for the firm, which became...
...throughout the country. Typical is the diversity within the Ecole Annexe de l'Ecole Normale des Instituteurs de Paris, a public primary school: children in one second-level class are made to sit up straight and arduously copy lessons from the blackboard; in another, they are allowed to mill around the classroom and speak more freely. But virtually all emerge with a solid foundation in the basics...