Word: implementer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government, whose exasperation was almost tangible, were limited to dragging out a very basic video presentation to explain very slowly how easy it was to exorcise Explorer. They insisted Microsoft was in contempt, and seem set to ask Jackson to implement the long-threatened $1 million-a-day fine. But Bill Gates has lost none of his Teflon coating ? despite the court wrangling, set to continue Wednesday, and another antitrust investigation in Japan, Microsoft stock still managed to end the day up another three points...
Whether the South Koreans can keep their part of the bargain is unclear. The legislature in Seoul rushed through a host of reforms last week but balked at a bill that would have made it easier to implement layoffs and restructuring at the large chaebols. No wonder: last January, when the parliament tried to pass a similar measure, Korean workers staged a general strike that paralyzed the country for more than three weeks...
Suharto's Fantasy Island TIME magazine reports that President Clinton, in a personal phone call to Indonsia?s President Suharto, demanded that the aging strongman implement IMF reforms. Economic chaos in the Asian nation could lead to a military coup...
...leaders spent what must have been an uncomfortable 25 minutes on the phone as translators relayed Clinton?s demand that Suharto immediately implement an International Monetary Fund austerity program that Indonesia agreed to last October. Earlier, Suharto had seemed oblivious to the crisis when he sparked panic by announcing a budget woven of pure fantasy. The job of leaning on Indonesia now falls to Deputy Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and Defense Secretary William Cohen, who both visit Jakarta and other Asian capitals this week, along with a senior IMF delegation...
...crisis is compounded by Seoul's paralyzed politics. The country will hold presidential elections this week, which leads the candidates to demagogue on the IMF deal rather than implement it quickly. Koreans who are not thoroughly disheartened by the implosion of their huge, highly industrialized economy are humiliated and resentful at the thought of a bailout from abroad. That makes it even harder for skittish politicians to impose the draconian remedies South Korea must swallow...