ITT WORLD DIRECTORIES, the US-based producer of yellow pages in eight countries, procures paper through a Belgian affiliate, allowing the firm to plan its worldwide purchases and inventories of paper
In India, Siemens is building steam turbines and 3M is producing tapes, chemicals and electrical parts. In Mexico, Hewlett-Packard is going into computer assembly and the design of memory
IBM is researching high-temperature superconductivity in Switzerland. GLAXO coordinated the development of a new drug with joint research at its different sites in the US and some European
XEROX: At the beginning of the 1980s, the US-based Xerox had joint ventures in different parts of the world, each controlling product design, supply networks, assembly operations and marketing and
AIRLINES: The airline industry's computer reservation system (CRS) links branch offices and thousands of travel agencies around the world, handling seat reservations, sales, delivery of travel
A 4.80 m long shallow water sediment core, collected from the inner shelf (at 22 m water depth) off Karwar, near Kali river mouth is studied for foraminiferal tracers of palaeomonsoons. The climate history of this core which represents the last 4,500 years approximately revealed the evidences of a significant change in the intensity of the precipitation around 2,000 years BP.
