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...foreign companies, determined to hold their U.S. market share, have postponed boosting their U.S. prices to compensate for the rise of their currencies against the dollar, even if it meant cutting into their profit margins. "The average foreign producer is probably selling at a loss right now," says Stephen Roach, a senior economist at the Morgan Stanley investment firm. Another factor is a reluctance among many U.S. businesses, which feel content with America as their main marketplace, to take advantage of the falling dollar to expand their sales abroad. Says Vladimir Pucik, assistant professor of international business at the University...
...office market and a lap-top model designed for executives on the go. The occasion gave the Texas-based company a chance to renew its claim of having pioneered the mass marketing of personal computers with the August 1977 introduction of its model TRS-80. For Tandy Chairman John Roach, the unveiling was also an opportunity to let loose a not so subtle shot at the industry's Goliath. When someone in the audience asked about IBM's next move, Roach jumped to his feet, grabbed a microphone and drawled, "I can hardly wait...
Tandy (1986 revenues: $3.3 billion) has become the king of the retail market by selling computers through its chain of 4,798 Radio Shack stores in all 50 states. Tandy Chairman Roach, 48, an outgoing Texan, makes unexpected visits to about 200 stores a year, helping ensure that Radio Shack employees offer courteous and knowledgeable service. Roach's latest mission is to keep business customers happy with machines like the new $2,599 Tandy 4000, while he pumps up efforts in the educational market...
...places." So mused a young photographer about the girl he found working in a factory near the end of World War II. Credit David Conover with an unerring eye, because his discovery was to become Marilyn Monroe. In June 1945, Conover, then an Army photographer stationed at the Hal Roach Studio in California, was sent by his commanding officer, Captain Ronald Reagan, to take promotional shots of women doing war work. The allure of Norma Jean Dougherty, 19, attaching propellers to model aircraft at the Radioplane Corp., prompted Conover to request a two-week leave, which he spent touring...
...slump is over," crows Tandy Chairman John Roach. Indeed, Roach and his computer-industry rivals have reason to feel a sudden rush of confidence. After being relatively cool to personal computers for three years, customers are snapping them up faster than a high-speed printer spews out sprocketed paper...