Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Leaders of all four groups participated in planning the merger. "The idea emerged through informal discussions among members of the groups last summer," says Sang S. Park '98, one founding member of KA and former board member of Yisei...
...found himself "rattling around in this big house alone." He says, "She was always the one who took care of the books, and I said, 'What should I do?'" The retired regulatory expert decided to learn to manage his money on the computer. Then he got the idea of trading stocks online. "I'm kind of a do-it-myselfer," says Schwebke, 60. While he leaves his ira in the hands of brokers, he took some of the money he inherited when his father died in September 1996 and invested it on his own. So every morning after Mass...
...clear. "He's not an ideologist," says Oxford University political scientist David Marquand, "but he wants an ideology. In a kind of intuitive way he knows what he's against and perhaps what he is for." Blair is utterly pragmatic. If it works, it's good, no matter whose idea it was. Blair has made no effort at disassembling the many reforms instituted by Thatcher and denounced at the time by Labour. So state industries remain privatized, unions are still reduced in power, businesses deregulated, and government spending held in check. That stance irritates Conservatives, who feel Blair is getting...
Like love and marriage, the idea of creating a global car company is not new. Lee Iacocca, even as he scrambled to save Chrysler during the dark years of 1979-81, dreamed of creating what he called Global Motors, a fully integrated international car and truck builder and seller. Global Motors would be one of perhaps six to 12 similar consortiums that would be all that remained of the more than 30 car companies operating...
Unless you have gone through the experience yourself, or watched a loved one's struggle, you really have no idea just how desperate cancer can make you. You pray, you rage, you bargain with God, but most of all you clutch at any hope, no matter how remote, of a second chance at life...