Word: globality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Damon is getting a little tired of that attitude. "The problem with dating the shroud is that you're in the realm of religion rather than science," he complains. Instead of going over the same ground again and again, he would prefer to resume his current research on global warming...
This deal is really about arming for global warfare in a viciously competitive industry that is filled with giants from Europe to Japan. Citi, for instance, is not ranked among the top 20 banks in the world. And foreign companies, unlike those in the U.S., face relatively few restrictions. In Europe banks and insurance companies have been free to buy each other for a decade. There's even a term for the combination--bancassurance. "It may be a new model for the U.S., but it's not a new model for Europe," Peter Toemin, bank analyst at London...
...business--be it manufacturing or services--size can bring many good things: clout, easier access to capital, lower costs. Those are what allow a company to keep prices down, provide better service, win business and keep profits up--the favored recipe for large-scale corporate survival in the global, capitalist '90s and a prime driver of the record $919 billion in mergers last year. By comparison, the 1980s (when the press screamed about "merger mania") were strictly peewee league. The biggest single year of deals in the greed decade was 1988, with $353 billion...
...like the discoveries that paved the way for the first wave of biotechnology entrepreneurs, today's new techniques of drug discovery represent a profound--and unavoidable--shift in the growth of the global pharmaceuticals industry...
Just when you thought your new black-slab digital cell phone was safe from high-tech thieves hell-bent on calling Kuala Lumpur, a group of Silicon Valley cypherpunks have broken the proprietary encryption technology used in 80 million GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) phones nationwide, including Motorola MicroTAC, Ericsson GSM 900 and Siemens D1900 models...