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Ford's plans to produce a "world car" is a truly global enterprise.

By locating offices in strategic time zones, a company can be run 24 hours a day.

Swissair has shifted its revenue section from Zurich to Bombay to cut costs and streamline operations.

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

Several problems stand in the way of reviving the sacred groves of western Rajasthan.