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Still, some U.S. firms have succeeded. IBM, Polaroid, NCR, Ralston Purina and Motorola have flourishing Japanese operations. McDonald's of Japan is the country's largest food-service company, with 457 shops. 7-Eleven has 2,299 stores in Japan, 308 of which opened during the past year. IBM has been operating in Japan since 1937, and earns more than $350 million a year there. Among the reasons: the vast majority of its 15,000 employees in Japan are locals, and the company works with several Japanese partners, including Mitsubishi and Kanematsu-Gosho...
President Reagan is beginning to hear howls from Congressmen and lobbyists demanding protection against cheap imports. Motorola President John Mitchell has called for a 20% surcharge tariff on all foreign imports, and he is getting an increasingly sympathetic hearing on Capitol Hill. The Administration is also sensitive to the problems posed by the strong dollar. Conceded White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan: "We see the damaging effects, but we are puzzled as to how to get the dollar down...
Eighty-one percent of the 20 percent of students who voted supported the measure, which would apply only to companies such as Motorola that don't "adequately abide" by the Sullivan Principles, according to sources at Stanford...
Working with five of the nation's largest manufacturers of telephone equipment, (AT&T, ITT, Motorola, RCA and GTE), NSA officials believe technology has been developed that will lead to what Deeley, in computer jargon, calls "a user-friendly secure phone" at a cost of less than $2,000 a unit. Scrambling units in current use weigh about 70 lbs. and take up the space of two filing-cabinet drawers. Electronics experts expect the new units to employ small, inexpensive microcircuits built directly into the telephone receiver. The scrambler converts signals produced by conversation into electronic "white noise" that...
Companies ranging from McDonald's to Motorola are preparing for next month's Summer Games with all the drive and determination of the athletes. In the first Olympics to be paid for largely by businesses, these firms have staked huge amounts of cash and pride on what they hope will be an uplifting 16 days of sports. Company officials, though, can get butterflies when they think about the uncertainty of their investments. The pullout of athletes from the Soviet Union and 13 other countries could hurt TV ratings and dampen press coverage of the Games. The unprecedented clutter...