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...reductions in the European Community's agricultural export subsidies. Brock even threatened to start a trade war by dumping 200,000 metric tons of butter on the world market in an effort to undercut European prices. Angry Western European ministers called for scrutiny of the U.S.'s multibillion-dollar farm programs. Said Denmark's Foreign Minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen: the U.S. is "trying to get us to give up a lot without giving anything in return." In the transatlantic dueling, the Japanese were overlooked, and Foreign Minister Yoshio Sakurauchi went unchallenged as he blandly pronounced his nation...
...frequency with which the final costs of multibillion-dollar weapons systems balloon far beyond original estimates is an all too familiar Pentagon embarrassment. Air Force auditors think they have put a finger on a related problem: the multiplying price of mundane spare parts...
Frantic finale to a fourway, multibillion-dollar takeover fandango...
...aerospace and auto-parts manufacturer, and Martin Marietta Corp., a leading defense contractor of Bethesda, Md., had become an embarrassing parody of Big Business in action. Seemingly unconcerned about the best interests of their stockholders or employees, some of America's top executives were threatening each other with multibillion-dollar stock ploys, while jetting cross-country for clandestine strategy sessions, tying up courtrooms from Michigan to Maryland and wasting millions of dollars in the process...
...accept this problem as part of the competitive game, but now they are taking ex-employees to court more often. Last April, for example, Microcomputer Systems Corp. of Sunnyvale, Calif, won a preliminary $2 million judgment against two former employees who had started a rival firm. In the multibillion-dollar computer business, trade secrets have become too valuable to be given up without a fight. -By Charles Alexander...