Word: globalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...funds can safely invest, for example, in German companies for the first time. But another important effect of the same development is that European companies are all coming under increased pressure to improve their share performance for international shareholders regardless of local circumstances--even those that don't face global competition. "There's tremendous pressure from institutional investors who have seen the positive effects of shareholder power in the U.S. and are demanding similar moves in Europe," says Manfred Kets de Vries, a management specialist at the INSEAD business school outside Paris...
...best way to fight e-commerce, Hanson decided, was to join it. So, last fall he began shopping around for a way to establish a presence on the Internet. He contacted local Internet service providers (ISPs) and asked other small-business owners about their experiences. He settled on Global Store globalstore.net) a company that offered to get him uploaded and running for $5,000, plus $150 a month for maintenance...
...Hanson balked at a solution that involved setting up bulky computer equipment next to his fish tanks. The costs were prohibitive for a small business: $20,000 to get the system up and running and an additional $800 a month to maintain the site. He ended up settling on Global Store's own servers, with no physical in-store service required...
Think again. Lee Fields, known as "Little J.B." to his friends "throughout the global funk community," has made a valiant effort to resurrect what he considers the fallen genre of "rough, nasty and genuine" '70s funk in this album. What the album lacks in musical talent (the band and the background singer have a few problems with consistency and staying together, and Fields himself isn't exactly James Brown), it definitely makes up for in character. Funk was played to bring smiles to people's faces and motion to their feet, and Let's Get A Groove On certainly does...
Think again, Lee Fields, known as "Little J.B." to his friends "throughout the global funk community," has made a valiant effort to resurrect what he considers the fallen genre of "rough, nasty and genuine" '70s funk in this album. What the album lacks in musical talent (the band and the background singer have a few problems with consistency and staying together, and Fields himself isn't exactly James Brown), it definitely makes up for in character. Funk was played to bring smiles to people's faces and motion to their feet, and Let's Get A Groove On certainly does...