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Toshiba will be hard hit by the ban if it becomes law. The Japanese conglomerate last year exported to the U.S. $1.7 billion worth of VCRs, home computers and semiconductors, among other goods. Congressional sanctions might spark a wave of layoffs at the firm's U.S. subsidiaries, which employ 4,500 workers...
...national security." The next day members of a Senate subcommittee on international finance raised the possibility of a long-term ban on U.S. imports of Toshiba and Kongsberg products. That would be an especially devastating blow to Toshiba (1986 revenues: $22.8 billion), which exported $1.6 billion in TV sets, VCRs and other goods to the U.S. last year...
...sustain Rear Window's off-the-wall programming. Kleiler attributes the difficulty in attracting a college audience to the lower attention span of our generation. "College kids have no interest in the past, in movies more than two years old. I wouldn't blame this on TV and VCRs; it's more of a general trend--in books, media as a whole...
...VCRs bring X- rated films into the bedroom, women are developing a taste for porn and pushing for a softer, less sexist product...
...industry experts believe they will make excellent landlords, committed to maintaining the value of their properties. Other U.S. business executives simply view the real estate boomlet as a harmless way to handle America's lopsided balance of payments with Japan by in effect trading high-rises and land for VCRs and cars. After all, the literal translation of fudosan, the Japanese word for real estate, is "nonmoving assets." That seems like a fair description of Manhattan skyscrapers...