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...week's sanctions to be harsh, the Administration carefully aimed them at the offending Japanese companies rather than U.S. consumers. Most of the products -- among them computer disk drives, refrigerators and electric motors -- are manufactured by the same giant corporations that the U.S. accuses of violating the semiconductor agreement: NEC, Fujitsu, Hitachi and others. Because the proposed 100% duties would effectively double the U.S. prices of those items, the Administration avoided choosing products in which Japan has a near monopoly, as in the case of videocassette recorders. The sanctioned products are manufactured by enough companies in the U.S. and other...
...good printers to consider are the NEC P6 ($550) and the Toshiba 321 ($575). Less expensive dot matrix printers with a lower quality print style (and slower speed) include the Epson LX-86 ($349) and the Okidate ML182 ($295). When buying a dot matrix printer, be certain to look at print samples first...
Embittered manufacturers in the U.S. contend that Japanese makers have managed this coup by selling semiconductors at a loss, with the aim of pushing their U.S. competitors out of the market. The Japanese chipmakers tend to be diversified electronics giants (the big three: NEC, Hitachi and Toshiba) that can afford to lose money temporarily on semiconductors because they can rely on other revenue to tide them over. In contrast, U.S. chipmakers tend to be specialized, entrepreneurial companies that are more sensitive to profit slumps. An exception is IBM, the world's largest semiconductor maker, but the computer giant sells none...
...following day, the Bank of Japan briefly intervened in the foreign-exchange markets, buying dollars to support the value of the U.S. currency. But no one could be sure that the bank would succeed, and a sense of helplessness came over many Japanese executives. Said an official of NEC, a leading Japanese electronics manufacturer: "It is like groping our way in the dark. All we want now is for the exchange rate to stabilize...
...Night Stalker case, technicians in Sacramento were still loading records from the old system into the new when the suspect print was lifted from an automobile linked to the killer. At the urgent request of police, four NEC programmers worked all night to finish the job. The following day, after the fingerprint had been scanned and digitized, the computer compared it with 380,000 stored in its memory and spit out the names of the ten people whose prints most closely resembled it. At the top of the list, with a probability rating four times as high as that...