Word: whats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A. Just listen to me first. If Americans who hold shares in Japanese companies demand American-style management at stockholders' meetings, we must clearly say no. That's what we did recently to T. Boone Pickens, a man with a disreputable reputation. America is in decline because of American managers...
American manufacturers eventually learned what the Japanese already knew: that new markets can be created by making things smaller and lighter. (The popular phrase in Japan is kei-haku-tan-sho -- light, thin, short and small.) Ten years ago, Black & Decker scored big when it shrank the household vacuum cleaner...
Unfortunately, there is a limit to how many transistors can be squeezed onto the surface of a chip. Thus the attraction of micromachines. They give engineers a way to shrink the moving parts of a device rather than trying to shrink its computer controls further. Some experts believe that within...
Early this year she began speaking out eagerly on the issue of substance abuse. Her schedule of public appearances soon quickened. Elegant and direct in front of audiences, Kitty was in enthusiastic demand. She whisked off to speak in the Midwest, then to Greece and back in 72 hours, then...
Dukakis had his own solution: further tax increases of $600 million. Dismayed legislators warned that the public would never accept such hikes. As the debt climbed dangerously, Democratic leaders decided Dukakis was unable to accept or even comprehend what had to be done. Worse, the Governor seemed incapable of bringing...