Word: marketeering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton era has seen both unparalleled prosperity and unparalleled government intervention to directly protect and advance the interests of specific U.S. corporations operating in world markets. Whether it was bailing out Mexico's currency to protect U.S. institutional investors or organizing a preemptive line of credit to prevent Brazil's economy tanking under pressure from Asia, or pressing China to make a host of concessions to specific U.S. corporations in exchange for WTO membership or leaning on South Africa over importing AIDS drugs from foreign sources that sold them cheaper than U.S. pharmaceutical corporations, the Clinton administration has always been...
...train moving backward, when coupled with Manuela's voice-over of the history and purpose for her journey detract from Almodvar's intention that the scene serve as a point of transition and departure. In an almost music-video-like sequence, a distraught Manuela peruses the local transvestite meat market. She does not find Lola, but she does come upon La Agrado (Antonia San Juan), or the agreeable one, Manuela's transsexual friend. La Agrado is the movie's ironic wit, garnering lines such as a full list of surgery she has undergone to look like an authentic woman: "almond...
...this doesn't seem to stop the reading public from snapping up biographies as if they were retellings of polar expeditions. A glance at the New York Times Book Review bestseller list for nonfiction reveals that biographies take up a large share of the popular market. Regardless of what the domination of Harry Potter books on the fiction bestseller list might indicate about the typical reader of today, just as interesting is the number of biographies on the nonfiction list. Of the top 15 bestsellers last week, only two non-fiction books can be classified as having no biographical content...
...know that's code for 'we're going to do it,'" Forbes said. When asked how he would respond to critics who wonder what would happen to these private investment accounts if the market were to go down, Forbes said, "'Risky' is Washington talk for 'You're going to take away our power...
...partnership will help further the CBG's goals of "helping meet the challenges of making democratic political institutions and market oriented economic arrangements work well," as outlined on their Web site...