Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Congress earlier this year when not raising interest rates, "the increasingly successful and pervasive application of recent technological advances, especially in telecommunications and computers, to enhance efficiencies in the production process." Translation: Inventories can now be managed more efficiently, and production capacity can more quickly respond to changes in demand. A fanatic for data, Greenspan has soaked up the evidence of surging corporate investment in technology and says managers presumably are doing so because they believe it will enhance productivity and profits. "The anecdotal evidence is ample," he says...
...course, sees it as an opportunity. He is in the midst of rejiggering Intel's operating model so the firm can make money on sub-$1,000 PCs. That means taking more risks and finding new applications for Intel chips. Intel has also invested hundreds of millions to "seed" demand for PCs. The firm is betting on interactive multimedia (imagine watching the Super Bowl and clicking on a player to see his stats), cable modems that speed Internet delivery and audio software that makes your PC sound like the local THX multiplex. Grove has reviewed dozens of battle plans...
...like getting yelled at by your mom in front of all your friends ? after you've grown up and left home. The European Union, frustrated with carrying the burden of keeping the United Nations alive, has told the U.S. to pay its arrears to the organization before Washington?s demand to have its dues lowered would be considered. "The European Union wishes to make clear that it will only agree to a reopening of discussions after the United States ... respects its financial obligations under the U.N. Charter," said Luxembourg ambassador Jean-Louis Wolzfeld, which, in diplomatic circles, amounts...
...inhibition. It is exhibition. What the President and the polity and the pedagogues should be preaching is racial decency. Respect. Restraint. Manners. The lesson ought to be: Whatever your innermost feelings--and we have no idea, despite the claims of pop psychology, how to change inner feelings--we demand certain behavior. That is what the civil rights laws are about. They do not mandate a pure society. They mandate right conduct amid impurity...
...trade surplus was up 59 percent in November from the previous year, yet exports to Asian neighbors dropped for the first time in more than three years. The reason: Weaker Asian currencies are making Japanese goods more expensive, while slower economic growth in nearby countries is cutting into demand for goods...