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American companies should gradually benefit from the spinoff, but experts warn them not to expect too much too soon. "U.S. firms won't be able to make a quick killing," says Fritz Ringling, an industry analyst with the Gartner Group. "The Japanese are looking for long-term relationships, not short-term flings." Among the American companies eager to expand their telecommunications activities in Japan are IBM and AT&T. Both have formed ventures with Japanese partners to develop telecommunications networks that will link computers together...
...Government will be closely watching the NTT spinoff. Washington has long urged Tokyo to open the important telecommunications market to American companies. This year Japan is exporting some $38 billion more to the U.S. than it is buying from Americans...
Northeastern's attempt to land the Institute has not gone all for naught, however, said Weiss. The university has developed a good relationship with the Department of Defense which will create "very positive spinoff's" when the school makes bids for future contracts in the area of software engineering...
...educated, urbanized outsider--to save the town from itself. He suspects that a toxic substance is causing the townspeople to repress the emotional mechanism designed to curb passions, literally lifting the lid off the id. His discoveries come--unsurprisingly--too late. The film's closing minutes play like a spinoff of The Stepford Wives...
...member board decided that it was "in the best interest of Trans World shareholders" to divide the parent corporation into two companies: an airline with more than $3 billion in annual revenues and a hotel, restaurant and real estate firm with $2 billion worth of business. Under the proposed spinoff, Trans World stockholders will receive 93 shares of TWA stock for each 100 shares of the corporation's stock that they now own, giving them a total of 193 shares in the two companies...