Word: growths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vladimir Nabokov: An Exhibition Marking the Centenary of His Birth" will focus on the building and continuing growth of Harvard's collections and specifically on literary first editions, dedication copies, periodicals, translations, manuscript material from the whole of the author's career. Memorial Rotunda, Widener Library. Call 495-2413 for hours. Through June 2. FREE...
...bring stability and order to the economy--and to fulfill what he regarded as his moral responsibility to safeguard clients' investments--he organized monster trusts. Notably, he midwifed the 1901 merger that created U.S. Steel, the world's first billion-dollar corporation. Such behemoths have spurred economic growth and technological advance. But can they get so big and powerful that the government is justified in breaking them up? If so, when? And how can that be done without losing the economic benefits of size? Are these still hot questions in 1999? Well, did somebody say...Microsoft...
...into white-collar jobs at such giant chaebol, or conglomerates, as Samsung that dominate the economy. More than a year of life under the yoke of a humiliating $58 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund has crushed all that. A bright horizon of lifetime jobs and seemingly nonstop growth has suddenly dimmed. In its place: soaring unemployment, a more competitive role in the global economy and diminished expectations for a country that had worked hard for its place in the sun but had also been living beyond its means...
...dramatic reforms have helped spark recovery sooner than most experts expected. The government predicts that growth in South Korea will bounce back to an annual rate of 2% by the second half of this year; by contrast, the economy shrank 5.9% in 1998. "There is no country in the OECD that has made such rapid changes," says Donald Johnston, secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. "Historians may look back and say this crisis has left a healthy legacy...
...last count--most still can't get a handle on what they're paying managers to run them. So last week the SEC introduced an interactive calculator www.sec.gov to show how those confounding fees--front-end loads (sales-charges), expense ratios--add up over time. Two $15 billion large-growth funds--one load, one no-load--can generate very different costs. Use the calculator to help find out if your fund managers are worth the price...