Word: cores
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alas, much of this attention--during junior and senior years--comes too late for many students. In the core economic theory and methodology courses in the first two years, students sit in large lecture halls. Applied econometrics, which teaches students crucial statistical research methods, consistently receives terrible CUE guide ratings. In spite of the presence of brilliant empirical researchers, the Department struggles to find an instructor for the course each year...
...alas, much of this attention-during junior and senior year-comes too late for many students. In the core economic theory and methodology courses in the first two years, students sit in large lecture halls. Applied econometrics, which teaches students crucial statistical research methods, consistently receives terrible CUE guide ratings. In spite of the presence of brilliant empirical researchers, the Department struggles to find an instructor for the course each year...
...down from the 20 or so it takes a traditional car manufacturer. "It's an admirable experiment," says Volvo's Franzen. "They've gone and outsourced the assembly line itself. The entire industry is looking at it with interest and, I must admit, skepticism because assembly is also a core competency...
With outside providers supplying more and more of the finished product, auto assemblers talk a lot about core competencies these days, which essentially means defining what a company does best and then focusing energy on that activity. For the Smart Car, Mercedes made sure it kept the engine design to itself, while the chassis is that of a Mercedes A-class sedan. The car's styling comes largely from SMH Automotive, the Swiss company that uses modular design to make Longines and Swatch watches (Smart, in fact, stands for Swatch-Mercedes art). SMH owned 19% of MCC until Daimler-Benz...
...relief because the global meltdown that many feared a year ago has not materialized. "We got very close to the edge of a financial crisis we haven't seen since the 1930s, which had the potential of pulling into that vortex the financial institutions and markets of the core economies," says Kenneth Courtis of Deutsche Bank Group in Tokyo. "The hole was so big, you couldn't see the bottom." But the ho-hum reaction of world markets to Brazil's currency collapse shows, says Courtis, "that the emerging-markets crisis at least in this virulent first phase is over...