Word: globality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...consulting play major roles in this effort. But have we done enough? Of all the money generated by capitalism, only a small portion trickles down to the disadvantaged people of the world. The vast majority of the money goes to executives, lawyers, bankers and other miniscule portions of the global community. While Sen accurately praises the value of capitalism, he should not congratulate himself too soon, because we can all still contribute to ensure that even more people will enjoy capitalism's many benefits...
...phone with a screen and pull-out keyboard that lets you surf the Internet? Samsung's Web Video Phone will hit stores in late February with a price somewhere south of $1,000. For those who'd like a touch-sensitive tablet that receives e-mail, news and weather, Global Converging Technologies will roll out its Cendis Net Display next summer for about $500. Philips' Ambi system, due out in February for $500, will turn any TV into a second home PC by using a wireless receiver that can pull video and audio signals from a computer...
...German stock market, these companies have a lot of money to spend." German banks were raised on low-excitement commercial loans -- now they want a piece of the sexy securities loot, and that's where BankersTrust came in. It's not world domination, it's just the global economy...
...couldn't meet its global warming commitments even if it wanted to. The government's Energy Information Agency this week released its 1999 Annual Energy Outlook, which suggests that complying with the Kyoto Protocol -- recently signed by the U.S. -- will be almost impossible. The agency projects that by 2010, U.S. carbon gas emissions will have increased 33 percent from 1990 levels; Kyoto requires that they be 5.2 percent below 1990 levels by then. But fulfilling the Kyoto requirements may not even be the administration's intention. "They signed the Kyoto treaty as a freebie," says TIME science editor Phillip Elmer...
...Louisiana during 1996. The company pumped 24.1 million lbs. of chemicals into wells and the air. The company also ranked No. 5 on the EPA's Top 50 list of companies that spew out the largest volume of toxic materials nationwide. Cytec, based in West Paterson, N.J., is a global chemical company with sales of $1.3 billion. And it has a friend in Louisiana, which has excused it from paying $19 million in local property taxes on machinery and equipment over the past decade. Records of the State Department of Economic Development show that the company created exactly 13 jobs...