European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 06, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Lost Confidence is losing business Charles Osgood Tribune Media service once upon a time we americans Hadan amazing amount of Confidence in ourselves. If there was a Chal Lenge a Job to be done we May not have known How we were going to do it exactly but there was no question in our minds we d find a Way. This was the famous american can do spirit. And sure enough most of the time we pulled it off. I can remember Reading signs in shop windows the difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a Little the management that was us All right. Brash bold unrealistic and unsophisticated. But also by the Way the wonder of the world. Now of course we re a lot More analytical. American management is a whole lot More sophisticated and scientific now than in the old Days. One of the things we re much better at today is realizing All the things we can t do. Today the sign would have to read nothing is easy anymore and the difficult things Are the management for example there is a billion Dollar piece of business out there waiting for somebody to grab it. Some company is going to make a bundle manufacturing the tubes for the High Resolution display screen the Federal aviation administration is buying As part of a $3 billion update of the air traffic control system. So far two companies have bid on the Job. Both of them Are japanese. No american corporation is ready willing or Able to make the commitment to deliver the tubes when the Faa says it wants them. Chicago based Zenith says it might be willing to make a bid if the Agency would hold off a year or so and if the government would also kick in $20 million or so for some additional research. The biggest technological race going on in the world right now is related to this question of High Resolution video tubes. The Pentagon is offering $30 million in seed Money to private Industry to work on High definition television because of its Many military applications. But Zenith s Boss Jerry Pearlman says that Money will Only scratch the surface. A Hundred million a year for four or five years would be More like it he thinks. A div May very Well revolutionize the entire television Industry in years to come some experts believe. They say in a couple of decades it could be a $ 140 billion business. But of course there is no guarantee of that. Besides a couple of decades from now is much too far away for modern Amer ican management to be thinking about. In the Long run we Are All dead is a saying Many Ameri can business school graduates love to quote. The company that gets the Faa contract is going to be Given an enormous boost in the world wide Competition for a div. Too bad it won t be an american company. Ivl dual income tax return d89 name the is Dpt by aafred scr a or Ron to last Nihal i much ? Rob if by v r a. H my Ittem of wet or to map Vic. 1 d an a d double d sacrifice Fly d married of Din singly Zoiti retort in if Sre ustis a up Way joint married singly s but i cuff i or i i r of Hewlds Junt filing Srote file spouse s t d vat Downer with sep tote be prudent fing pm Edurn singly Wue iof Nair Tom fixz.? quo a Rejto of Toni 3" St Jei Job mtg Jajw set Resl Tielyr evil by std j schedule l it n enl is Only Wak re yes Here p no i Yea a Ono dres u 4 a b Nan a ii Wren who Cpd with c just first names Puroy 4 a top weigh in number Oferrel was sur old pm grass a std Loo few us 27 ll�5s gnaw ii roast wits. F Jacw Many id Heb in a lifer. 4 7 3 total Mia srm. 13. What about All that Cash you so Seel in mar u no kidding five famous products1 original names kleenex cell Cotton Dixie cups health Kups trampoline bouncing table Zipper a purity Fastener Eskimo pie a scream bar source invention Book gangsters original occupations John Dillinger machinist pretty boy Floyd Farmer machine gun Kelly Salesman Charles o Bannion singing waiter dutch Schultz Printer Bonnie Parker waitress Clyde Barrow Farmer Lucky Luciano shipping clerk source Bloo tetters and madmen Why Mickey mouse comic was banned United states Mickey shown Reading banned Book 1932 Yugoslavia alleged anti monarchist Story 1937 Italy unsuitable for children 1938 Germany Mickey an anti red rebel 1954 source banned books 6atzsanp fu6hts ?.128-6 301-4231-1 May 6, 1990 sunday Page
