Word: selling
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Kenwood expects to sell the first DAT machine in the U.S. next month. It will be a combination radio and tape player for cars. Ford has announced that similar units, made by Sony, will be in some Lincoln Continentals by June. While those two machines will only play tapes, other models that record music as well have been promised for the summer by Harman/Kardon, Marantz and Casio...
...reform drive is running into stiff opposition. His economic restructuring program, known as perestroika, entered a bold new phase on New Year's Day, when 60% of Soviet industry was put on a "self-financing" basis. The new system allows enterprises to decide what to produce and where to sell it, but it also requires them to earn a profit or go out of business. Those elements of capitalist-style risk taking are frighteningly foreign to managers accustomed to relying on Moscow's central planners for virtually all business decisions. If employees of successful enterprises can anticipate increased bonuses...
...deviations from socialist ideology. Even some of the Soviet leader's reform- minded allies have reservations. Economist Gavril Popov, a Gorbachev adviser, has argued publicly that the self-financing plan is doomed to become a "fiction." Writing in the newspaper Sovetskaya Kultura, he said Soviet plants would still sell most of their goods to the government...
...their way to pay tribute to the late President. Communist Party Chief Zhao Ziyang noted approvingly that Chiang "had upheld a 'one- China' policy." Taiwan's geopolitical status is also a matter of concern for Washington, which ceased to recognize Taiwan diplomatically in 1979 but continues to sell arms to the country and to count it as the fifth largest U.S. trading partner. President Reagan sent a personal message of condolence to Taiwan, and Washington praised Chiang as a "respected leader...
...their unsuccessful suit, the landowners claimed that the rule of eminent domain did not allow Lawrence to seize the land because of the city's plans to sell part of the land to Emerson, which is a privately owned and operated institution, Ball said...