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Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Aug 24, 2015 (II)

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发表于 8-22-2015 11:05:01 | 只看该作者 回帖奖励 |倒序浏览 |阅读模式
(3) Alexandra Ho, The Plum China Posting That’s Turned Sour.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar ... -market-sales-slump

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Citroën’s Scheunert arrives just as the market is taking a big fall
(b) summary at the page top (in print) of the section (the magazine has many sections): For car execs, China is not a sure thing anymore
(c) The French and German female given name Sabine (the accent is in the second syllable which is rhymed with “been” (a long vowel) is derived from
The Rape of the Sabine Women
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_the_Sabine_Women
(c) Citroën
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citroën
(Founded in 1919 by André-Gustave Citroën; Headquartes Saint-Ouen [a commune 4.1 miles from center of Paris]; in 1973 declared bankruptcy again and merged with Peugeot; selling vehicles in China since 1984, via the Dongfeng Peugeot-Citroën joint venture)
(d) “China surpassed the US in 2009 to become the world’s biggest market for vehicle sales, bolstering the careers of many executives who once ran units there, including Takahiro HACHIGŌ 八郷 隆弘, now president 社長 of Honda Motor, and Joseph Hinrichs, Ford Motor’s executive vice president and president for the Americas.”
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 楼主| 发表于 8-22-2015 11:05:57 | 只看该作者
(4) Natasha Khan Kiyotaka Matsuda, Fujifilm Develops a New Focus. www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... finds-a-second-life

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Japanese film giant finds a second life after phoography
(b) “During a recent magazine shoot in Japan, Fujifilm Holdings Corp’s Chairman 会長 Shigetaka KOMORI 古森 重隆 [‘who is also chief executive officer’] posed in a white lab coat, wielding a test tube in his hand. Komori is no scientist * * * Fujifilm this year reported record profit of 119 billion yen ($950 million)”

The “ko” is Chinese pronunciation of 古.
(c) “Yuzō TODA 戸田 雄三, the chemist Komori has entrusted to lead the push into cosmetics and pharmaceuticals”

(d) "A lifelong Fujifilm employee who took over as CEO in 2003, Komori has sometimes likened his role to that of a general going into battle. He talks about taking calculated risks, and in his memoir 'Innovating Out of Crisis' mentions reading Winston Churchill’s World War II account several times. Yuuki, the Japanese word for courage, is framed on a conference room wall where he receives guests."
(i) the memoir
(A) The Japanese-language verson: 魂の経営. 東洋経済新報社刊, 2013.
(B) The English-language version: Innovating Out of Crisis; How Fujifilm survived (and thrived) as its core business was vanishing. Berkeley, California: Stone Bridge Press, 2015
(ii) Japanese English dictionary
yūki 勇気 【ゆうき】
  ^ "yuu" is another, minor, way (here "uu" signifying a long vowel of "u") to transliterate Japanese into English.

(e) "Scientist Tomoko TASHIRO 田代 朋子, who had been developing molecules for preserving photographs, came back from maternity leave in 2005 to find that she had been reassigned. She was asked to look into applying the same technology to skin. * * * Collagen is a shared ingredient in both photographic film and human skin."
(i) This is the online version. I am talking about the last sentence. The print explains that gelatin, used in film, comes from collagen.
(ii) collagen  膠原蛋白
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collagen

Quote:

"Collagen is the main structural protein in the extracellular space in the various connective tissues in animals.

"The name collagen comes from the Greek kólla, meaning 'glue,' and [Greek] suffix -gen, denoting 'producing.'  This refers to the compound's early use in the process of boiling the skin and sinews of horses and other animals to obtain glue.

(iii)
(A) gelatin (n; ultimately from Latin gelāre to freeze)
www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/gelatine
(B) gelatin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelatin
(an irreversibly hydrolyzed form of collagen; Section 2 Production: A pie chart (whose heading is "Materials Used in Gelatin Production") shows 44% Pig Skin, 28% Bovine Hides, and 27% Bones)
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