Word: partner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...partner at the investment firm Touche Ross said, "Any time the after-tax consequences are greater, management looks harder at expenses." In other words, if Maison Robert's corporate customers couldn't deduct their $16 desserts, Maison Robert would have to lower its prices. That's what the free market is all about...
...situation had ominous parallels to the calamitous early 1980s. Only six years after its fabled turnaround, here was Chrysler embattled again, posting losses on its North American operations for the first time since 1982. Amid persistent auto-industry speculation that Chrysler might be forced to merge with a foreign partner, here was Chairman Lee Iacocca declaring that for the company to survive, it must cut at least $1 billion, or $500 a car, from its overhead. To help meet that goal, the company will lay off 6,300 employees in the coming months...
...have time to go around taking moral stands," the voice of Douglas Brackman, the balding managing partner of the mythical Los Angeles law firm of Mackenzie Brackman, booms from the large-screen...
Germany itself might challenge that. Even without reunification or major changes in the present alliance system, West Germany is set to become the overwhelming economic power of Middle Europe. It is already the most important Western trading partner of all seven Warsaw Pact countries. And the slow disintegration of Comecon, the Moscow-based council that brokers East bloc trade, coupled with Eastern Europe's desperate need for capital and expertise, will open up enormous new economic opportunities that West Germany is poised -- financially, geographically and politically -- to exploit. "Between the two superpowers, there shall be a union of European states...
Hewlett-Packard got the message when its Japanese partner, Yokogawa Hewlett- Packard, complained about the quality of the memory devices manufactured by the American firm. The centerpiece of Hewlett-Packard's quality program, started in 1979, is a closer relationship with its suppliers. Treating them as partners rather than free-lance sources, the company involves partsmakers in the initial design phase of its new products and gives the suppliers six-month forecasts of its needs so that the smaller companies can plan their own production. As a result, Hewlett-Packard reached its goal of increasing quality tenfold in just...