Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...key to this paradox is a four-letter word: kids. Public service at Harvard revolves around children...
...With the game tied at 62 and under two minutes left in regulation, Clemente received the ball at the top of the key, well beyond the three-point line. Unable to find a man to his left or right, and noticing that no Princeton defender was coming out to cover him, Clemente let fly a high arcing shot from 26 feet that found nothing...
...key is that the chopping happens close to home, which reduces outsourcing costs and keeps jobs nearby. Volvo, based in Goteborg, Sweden, has turned an old shipyard in the nearby town of Arendal into a supplier village, where nine supplier partners construct components and subsystems and line them up in the proper order before shipping them to the assembly plant. It all happens in double-quick time. "We give them eight days' notice to get the quantities together, and then we give them four hours' notice to do the sequencing," Franzen says...
...sets of issues. At the national level, the role of governments has to be redefined. As their ability to influence business activity is increasingly constrained and their margin of maneuver shrinks before the overwhelming power of financial markets, governments are under pressure to enlarge their roles in two key domains: on the one hand, they must strive to provide through their policies the most propitious environment and framework for economic activity, for knowledge generation and for greater competitiveness; on the other hand, they must equip their citizens with the skills and expertise needed to face the unrelenting pressures and requirements...
...board focused on the U.S. as the key engine of world growth. Many indicators are encouraging. The unemployment rate of 4.3% is the lowest in 28 years. Inflation is under 2% and shows no signs of heating up. The run-up in the stock market since 1994 has added an extra $10 trillion to the assets of American households. And Washington's success in finally reversing three decades of government deficits has opened up a new era of "surplus politics," says Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International, "which is a huge change in the nature of our economy...