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...altitudes and faster speeds than turboprops. Comair had five daily flights from Cincinnati to Appleton, Wis., a paper-industry center, on 30-seat Embraer turboprops. It now has six flights a day to Appleton, five of which use 50-seat jets. Says Michael Fletcher, a service engineer with Voith Sulzer PaperTechnology who travels frequently to Appleton: "This flight puts me in the heart of the papermaking industry in Wisconsin in minimal time." Given a choice, Fletcher prefers to fly on a jet. "When I get off the plane, I'm in much better shape," he says. "The difference is night...
...someone with influence, it can take a month to get a phone installed in England, and no one would ever call a broker on the weekend. "In Switzerland if you ask, 'Why?', they tell you, 'Because that's the way it is,' " says New York Art Dealer Bettina Sulzer Milliken, 36, daughter of a Swiss industrialist, who with her American husband runs a gallery in SoHo. "In America the answer is 'Because that's the way we like...
...Bettina Sulzer, 29, whose family is prominent in Switzerland, deals with European clients at Manhattan's prestigious Andre Emmerich art gallery. Says the slender, demure Bettina: "I am into an American group. I don't want to hang around with Europeans as a group. The jet set I certainly don't want to be with." Though her family has always trotted the globe-her grandmother was the last survivor of the Titanic when she died in 1972-she spends her vacations exploring America: this summer she will go to Wyoming, sleeping in a tepee on a ranch...
...singular success of South Carolina's drive to lure foreign investment. The state has attracted foreign factories worth about $1.7 billion, and some 40% of this investment is located in Spartanburg. Hoechst, Germany's chemical giant, operates a $300 million fiber plant there; Switzerland's Sulzer makes textile machinery, as does Italy's Pignone, and within a year Michelin will open a $100 million truck tire factory near the Milliken research center. All told, companies from eight countries have plants in the area, employing 4,500 local citizens. Richard Tukey, head of the local Chamber...
...problem. Moreover, it seems that voluntary reporting of detailed information is becoming a corporate badge of status and confidence. In Switzerland, haven of the holding company, where only the loosest laws exist and no new ones are contemplated, the voluntary reports of such companies as Nestle, Geigy, Alusuisse, Sulzer and Landis & Gyr already reflect recognition that fuller disclosure is the coming yardstick for a company's international standing...