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...other high-tech firms are now vying with one another to tap into Japan's telecommunications market. Last April, Japan's national telephone system was converted from a staterun monopoly into a private enterprise. While it is too soon to predict how much business will be captured by foreign firms, the winners are likely to be those companies that can adapt to the special demands of the Japanese market. Says Byron Battle, an undersecretary of economic affairs for the Massachusetts Office of International Trade: "In Japan, you have to sell it their way, not the Great American way." That...
Currently, all states must follow nutritional guidelines set down by the national government. Under the staterun program, there would be no such ground rules, leaving states free to establish guidelines as they wish. When such leniency was last allowed, the Reagan administration tried to call ketchup a vegetable in order to meet nutrition standards...
Whenever the subject of oil comes up, Brazil's politicians unfailingly quote two slogans. "The oil is ours," is one cry, and the second goes, "Petrobras is untouchable." Petrobras is Brazil's staterun oil company, and the country's biggest single business. It provides jobs for 30,000 people, produces 30% of Brazil's crude-oil needs, grosses almost $350 million a year. But Petrobras is also one of Brazil's sickest companies -hard hit by graft and inefficiency, and honeycombed with far-leftists. Last week, after a jolt of scandals, Petrobras was anything...
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