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...marvels have become vital parts of everything from autos and television sets to missiles and battleships. So when U.S. chipmakers stumbled in recent years and lost ground to the Japanese, fears were raised that a glamorous new industry might be going the same uncompetitive way as American cars and steel. Instead, semiconductor makers embarked on a dazzling boom. Worldwide sales of U.S.-made chips jumped fully 20%, to $9.6 billion in 1983, and are expected to show a spectacular 50% increase this year...
...Inland Steel...
...Compare training programs within an industry--how is Banker's Trust's program different from Chemical Bank, Inland Steel's from Procter & Gamble...
Ferraro delivered a typical, spunky performance when she visited the down-and-out steel city of Youngstown, Ohio...
These price-cutting binges are a sign not of desperation but of acutely smart merchandising. Though Sharon is an old steel town, with a population of just 19,057 in a county with an unemployment rate of 13%, Reyers has grown to become one of the largest independent shoe stores in the U.S. It draws 1,000 to 3,000 customers a day, some coming from Pittsburgh and Cleveland, 75 miles away. This year, its 99th, it will record annual sales of $6 million to $8 million (vs. $355,000 for the average shoe retailer...