Word: globalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just as the new partnership stretches across international borders, the two schools hope their cooperation with industry--particularly in the United Kingdom--will improve productivity in an expanding global economy...
...vote is with Bob. Forget about being nuts, you've got to be crazy to run for President of the United States. Maybe it would be easier to lead another country, especially one that wasn't such an integral part of world affairs or whose economy didn't have global influence. In addition, I can't imagine any group of people being more difficult to lead than American citizens. Our cynicism abounds. Fickleness prevails. Irony thrives. Opinions shift. And we love to criticize. In response to our scrutiny, presidential candidates capitulate to our demands and play to our whims...
...Yorker printed his somewhat embarrassing Yale report card, which only added fuel to the fire of skepticism that George W. can confront the sticky politics that come along with the Oval Office. But if he can endure Americans mocking him and publicly doubting his intelligence, then maybe global affairs will be a cakewalk...
...with global warming, melting ice from Greenland and the Arctic Ocean could pump fresh water into the North Atlantic; so could the increased rainfall predicted for northern latitudes in a warmer world. Result: the Gulf Stream's water wouldn't get saltier after all and wouldn't sink so easily. Without adequate resupply, the southerly underwater current would stop, and the Gulf Stream would in turn be shut...
...germ-line genetic engineering, which could be accomplished only by experts in human embryology, who were employed exclusively by private fertility clinics. The potential for profit was enormous, and financial support was easily obtained from biotech venture capitalists. Indeed, the unique American political-scientific-business environment boded well for global domination of the new field...