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...high price-earnings ratios in part to accounting rules that allow companies to understate earnings to keep their taxes lower. Another factor propping up prices is so-called cross-holding of stock. Because many Japanese companies hold large blocks of other companies' stock, which out of tradition are seldom traded, fewer shares are available for purchase so their prices rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Tokyo's Bull Riding Too High? | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...nature of the job may also have taken its toll. Japanese managing directors, unlike general managers of U.S. teams, seldom arrange trades or put together rosters. Yet they are held responsible if the team fares badly. They usually have no background in the sport and are employed directly by the large corporations that finance the teams. Furuya, who had worked since 1955 for the Hanshin Electric Railway Co., the Tigers' owner, oversaw operations at Koshien Stadium before being appointed managing director. Furuya was "too earnest, sincere and had too strong a sense of responsibility," observed noted Sports Commentator Shinya Sasaki...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan Death of a Manager | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

BIBLICAL SCOREBOARD (BS) claims to be a "nonpartisan nonsectarian" publication. Its executives deny that it is pro-Republican, though it seldom says anything good about the Democrats. "Scoreboard recommends to its readers that they vote for the candidates which best represent Judeo-Christian values--those that are pro-family, pro-morality, pro-traditional values, pro-freedom, pro-biblical...

Author: By Frank E. Lockwood, | Title: What the Bible Says | 8/2/1988 | See Source »

...folks back in Sioux Falls or Sacramento. Many of them did so with the help of independent services like Conus Communications and Potomac Communications, which provided work space, technical facilities and satellite time at a typical cost of between $4,000 and $8,000 for the week. "Seldom," said CBS Anchorman Dan Rather, "have so many with so much covered so little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Do Conventions Turn Off the Public? | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

...such lapses are seldom in the compelling microcosm of village life Schiffman so skillfully brings to the screen. From the clothes of the peasants and the noblemen to the scenes of women at work in the fields, the movie succeeds in a realistic reproduction of the time, seen through the lens of the mythical tale which the film chronicles...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: The Conflicting World of Medieval France | 7/15/1988 | See Source »

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