Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dominates the market in Brazil, supplying 52% of domestic petroleum requirements. For years, as a state-owned monopoly, it was inefficiently run. But in 1995, a constitutional change liberalized the exploration, production and development of oil. The government was subsequently allowed to sell off more than 30% of Petrobras' common shares. Result: since 1995 the price of Petrobras stock has more than trebled, powered by higher operating cash flows...
Western Europe should be so lucky. Economic growth resumed there this year, but the projected gains are pretty modest: 2.3% in 1997 and 2.7% in 1998. The fate of the common currency of the European Monetary Union, which is to be inaugurated Jan. 1, 1999, is a big reason. The new unit, known as the euro, will proceed on schedule, predicts John Hsu, CEO of John Hsu Capital Group, a New York City-based money-management firm. "But there will be all kinds of compromises. That implicitly means the euro is going to be a weak currency." Britain is expected...
...trouble keeping the habits straight in any case. Covey's teaching is, to put it mildly, highly schematic. The 7 Habits begat the three primary laws of love, which are not to be confused with the four primary laws of life. There are four unique human gifts and three common mistakes and...but who's counting? A reader who can hack through this verbiage will realize soon enough that it serves only to obscure old-fashioned notions that have sustained families since they first wandered out of the Serengeti. Think before you speak. Plan ahead. Try to see the other...
...first glance, these stories seem completely unrelated--three profoundly different disorders treated with three different drugs. Yet all three medications have one crucial element in common: they target the brain chemical serotonin. Though serotonin has been known to researchers for nearly a half-century, only in recent years have neuroscientists begun to understand how important this one substance is to the functioning of the human psyche. Serotonin, or the lack of it, has been implicated not only in depression, uncontrollable appetite and obsessive-compulsive disorder but also in autism, bulimia, social phobias, premenstrual syndrome, anxiety and panic, migraines, schizophrenia...
...soon-to-be U.S. Senator Arlen Specter, and bail was set at a staggeringly low $40,000--only $4,000 of it needed to walk free. It was paid by Barbara Bronfman, a Montreal socialite who had married into the Seagram distillery family and met Einhorn through a common interest in the paranormal. It was Einhorn's new rage, and his orbit of friends had expanded to include Uri Geller, the spoon-bending Israeli illusionist...