Word: medium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have taken steps to protect their officers. Fiat is reported to have prepared a highly confidential booklet for some 3,000 executives, "advising standard precautions such as varying daily travel, watching for suspicious strangers and carefully checking one's car. A group of 50 heads of small-and medium-size businesses in northern Italy have organized themselves into a modern version of the tontine, a primitive 17th century insurance company. They have put together a mutual-benefit ransom society so that if any member is held hostage, all participants will put up cash to buy his freedom...
After three years of work on the distribution problem, company officials initiated a court-prescribed honor system. They published newspaper notices asking people to fill out forms categorizing themselves as light, medium or heavy consumers of chips. Heavy users were eligible for a $6.30 rebate, medium users for $5.30 and light users...
...automatically increases the prices of Japanese goods overseas, inevitably hurting an economy based so heavily on trade. In addition, Japan's shipbuilding yards and textile mills are meeting tough competition from spanking new facilities in lowpaying, less developed nations such as Brazil and South Korea. Small-and medium-size general merchandise producers of toys, hardware and household goods are losing markets to rivals in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Profits are meager for many companies, and 18,000 firms went bankrupt last year...
...only modest growth. Toyota Motor Co., which expects to sell 550,000 vehicles in the U.S. this year, vs. 561,000 in 1977, recently announced a scenario for the future that includes plans for eventually reducing its present capacity by 30%. Some firms, like the Tokyo Juki Co., a medium-size machinery maker, have put a freeze on wage boosts...
Researchers have long been frustrated by their inability to get cancer cells from patients' tumors to grow rapidly in culture. But the Arizona team, led by Dr. Sydney Salmon and Cell Biologist Anne Hamburger, discovered three years ago that by "conditioning" culture medium with spleen cells taken from mice prone to cancer, they can grow tumor cells from people with common forms of cancer. (The mouse cells apparently produce some yet unidentified factor that supports the growth of certain human cancer cells.) According to Salmon, the cancer cells that thrive and form colonies in the laboratory's plastic...