Word: consumerized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those seizures underscore a little noted but crucial fact of life in the $130 billion cocaine business: the drug trade is a two-way street. The cocaine flows from mostly Third World producers to the U.S. and other industrialized nations, but the chemicals and other materials needed to turn coca...
Harvard officials said this week that the University will take on a new role with RJR-Nabisco, the tobacco and consumer goods company recently taken over by Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts and Company in the largest leveraged buyout ever.
Instead, he filled the building with service-oriented shops catering to the new Cambridge consumer. Each of the stores in the former Orson Welles building has at least one other shop in another location around Boston and Cambridge.
The condominiums--and the stores that have accompanied the developments--were designed with a specific consumer group in mind, Alstein says. The developers have targeted their condos toward "empty nesters"--affluent couples who want to sell their houses in the suburbs after their children have gone off to college.
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning," declared Lieut. Colonel Kilgore in the epic Apocalypse Now. Any deskbound battle buff who shares that sentiment will find a sensory treat in the current issue of Armed Forces Journal International, a Washington-based monthly. BEI Defense Systems, a Fort Worth...