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- <text id=91TT1083>
- <title>
- May 20, 1991: Business Notes:Selling
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- May 20, 1991 Five Who Could Be Vice President
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 47
- Business Notes
- SELLING
- You Pay Nothing Now!
- </hdr><body>
- <p> With the Kuwaiti government still disorganized and short of
- cash, the anticipated bonanza in postwar recovery contracts for
- U.S. firms has proved something of a mirage. But one
- enterprising U.S. company has shown how to get business anyway:
- Don't wait for the contract--just start working.
- </p>
- <p> Waste Management, a firm in Oak Brook, Ill., with revenues
- last year of $6 billion, beat a number of international rivals
- to take on Kuwait's dirty work by simply sending in its own
- army of 100 sanitation workers within days of the war's end.
- "We just wanted to get started," says the company's Kuwait
- manager, Nick Harbert. "If they wanted to pay us, fine. If they
- wanted us to leave, that was fine too."
- </p>
- <p> The Kuwaitis have accepted Waste Management's $500,000
- bill, and this month awarded the company one of the country's
- heftiest contracts so far: $12 million to provide all basic
- sanitation services in Kuwait City for a year. Waste Management
- sees even greater potential in areas such as environmental
- reclamation and oil spills.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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