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...Europe and China, those sales tend to be concentrated in the compact-car segment, in which profit margins are low. In Japan, where Toyota intends to launch its Lexus brand in August, the company may have a hard time expanding market share, already at 44%. The dollar's slump against the yen, meanwhile, makes Japanese exports more expensive...
...supercomputers, are playing the role of the Grinch. They will shut their doors for up to three weeks next month, a time when workers normally expect year-end bonuses and office celebrations. The painful closings are only the latest steps that chip producers are taking to cope with a slump that has crippled the once booming high-tech industry. "There's no end in sight," says Richard Billy, an analyst with the Gartner Group, a computer-research firm. "The bloodbath will continue...
SOPHOMORE SLUMP...
Industry analysts believe the buyout makes sound business sense. Faced with a slump in jeans sales in recent years, Levi in the past 20 months has ruthlessly slashed costs, closing 14 domestic plants and an additional nine abroad while laying off some 5,500 workers. Net profits are up for the leaner Levi, and prospects are improving. Meanwhile, lower interest rates make it cheaper for the family to borrow money to finance the buyout. LEGISLATION Taking On Takeovers...
Teammates all reference the Yale series, in which he went 7-for-11 with six RBI in three games, clobbering a grand slam off Bulldogs ace Josh Sowers to lift himself and Harvard out of a slump and atop the Red Rolfe division. And then, of course, there was the Ivy championship series against the Tigers, where—facing elimination—he drove in every Crimson run against flamethrower and eventual fourth-round draft pick Ross Ohlendorf, topping it off with a 400-foot home run into the trees in dead center...