Word: supplier
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Chrysler's 20,000 suppliers are the most complicated problem. One steel company told Iacocca, in his words, to "drop dead." Said the president of another longtime supplier: "A lot of us will not go along. There is not 5% of profit for us left in Chrysler business...
...office of the future is not limited to the corporate giants. In Glendale, Calif., William Fusco, president of Hydraulic Industrial, a small-scale supplier of pipes and valves to local industry (1979 sales: $2 million), has spent $65, 000 on a mincomputer system that enables his 22 employees to monitor and control every administrative and record-keeping aspect of the business. For example, every time a particular item in stock runs low, the computer is programmed to warn of the decline...
...Iran, the Soviets would almost certainly like to replace the U.S. as the arms supplier to the Tehran government. There is also the possibility that Iran could simply disintegrate into chaos. The Soviets would clearly be pleased to pick up some of the pieces as long as they could do so without risking a major confrontation with the U.S. Nonetheless, U.S. intelligence has uncovered no evidence that the Soviets are directly fanning the fighting on the Iranian side by infiltrating arms. The Kremlin, in short, seems to be behaving like a well-heeled but very cautious, very patient gambler?placing...
...from Tehran, the Soviets might well continue their wooing, assuming that sooner or later the isolated Iranians would find it necessary to seek their help. Meanwhile, despite their somewhat prickly relations with the mercurial Saddam Hussein, the Soviets were still on record as being Iraq's principal military supplier. They had also hedged their bets by firming up relations with a potentially useful client in Syria. The Soviets have been Syria's principal arms source since the late '50s, but Assad until now had carefully refused to formalize relations in a treaty. As it stands, the treaty...
...revel in their emergence as black Africa's richest and most powerful nation-and a rising economic force on the world scene. With daily shipments to the U.S. of nearly 1 million bbl. of low-sulfur "sweet" crude oil, Nigeria ranks as the U.S. 's second largest supplier of foreign petroleum (after Saudi Arabia). Nigeria's staggering trade surplus with the U.S. this year is expected to top $11 billion-possibly more than that of any other nation. This week Nigerian President Alhaji Shehu Shagari will arrive in the U.S. to address the United Nations...