Word: consumerized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The lone concession to the southern African nations is that they can appeal the CITES decision. If they prove that their herds are out of danger, they could engage in tightly controlled ivory trading. Yet if major consumer nations block imports, there will be little market for ivory.
Enforcing the ban may not be as serious a problem as once thought. Consumer demand for ivory is plummeting, and with it the price of tusks. But even those who championed the ivory ban doubt that the elephant is out of peril. Said Susan Lieberman of the U.S. Humane Society...
Within the military, Noriega too has played the race issue shrewdly, promoting nonwhite officers and giving the predominantly nonwhite enlisted ranks new perks. He has traditionally stocked the post exchanges with ample and affordable consumer goods and protected the pay of enlisted men against U.S. economic sanctions. But as the...
The reluctant laureate was honored for pathbreaking work in the early 1940s that laid the foundation for econometrics, which uses mathematical models to study the behavior of an economy. "Every time you open a newspaper and see an analysis of economic trends," said Assar Lindbeck, chairman of the economics- prize...
Consumer Marketing Director: Ellen J. Fairbanks