Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When the country was vaulting to economic success, parents aspired to get their sons into white-collar jobs at giant chaebol, or conglomerates, like Samsung. 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 been living beyond its means. MORE...
...like to do both. I would also like to direct eventually; something that's on the horizon for me right now. So eventually I'd like to do all three, though right now I'm focused more on writing because it gives me greater creative control...
...those funny interconnections have been cut. Financial institutions have used the time to weed their portfolios and especially to reduce their exposure to high-risk regions and sectors. That helped international markets shake off Brazil's latest shudder. The downside is that emerging economies are largely off the horizon of foreign portfolio managers, who feel safer on Wall Street no matter how giddy its prices. As Naim notes, Amazon.com now has a market capitalization that exceeds the entire stock market of Argentina...
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...know if there's going to be a momentous change on the horizon. We know so little about that here [at the Murray]," Mauzy said...