Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...free marketeer might argue that university student groups should receive no subsidies whatsoever and instead let students vote with their feet on which activities they believe most enrich their college experience. Those students who want to try Brazilian dance, for instance, ought to shell out $30 dollars each to support a program. If a student wants to read the Independent or Perspective, she should pay a quarter for a copy from a vending machine. If fewer people dance or read campus publication, market advocates say, that's just fine...
...ideas and activities should be given additional support and cultivation. As a matter of fact, it seems that small, startup projects are the greatest beneficiaries of the Undergraduate Council's grants process. Most students probably wouldn't want to eliminate their termbill activities fee and replace it with a market system because we believe that the dynamism of student life--even if it is some what artificial--significantly enriches our experience, and we seem to think that dynamism will not be able to flourish satisfactorily without subsidies...
...loyal core is enough, in the words of one Serb, to allow Milosevic "to steal any election." It also gives him the causes and crises that make him irreplaceable. "We are for Slobo because he is for us," explained Velimir Djurica at his plumbing stall in Belgrade's black market last week. "The foreign boot must...
...need a team of engineers to build a PC today," says Steven Dukker, CEO of eMachines. These issues have computer executives shuddering as the PC business matures into one in which price trumps brand and profit margins are narrowing. Dukker's company is the upstart leader in the ultracheap market that is suddenly rewriting the business model of the personal-computer industry. It's partly to blame for the recent sell-off of technology stocks that has driven major computer-manufacturer share prices down as much as 40%. (Want to know why we didn't make...
...head into the millennium, it's a different market, one that has tech CEOs conceiving new strategies and tech analysts revising earnings expectations downward. In just a week, analysts lowered their share-price targets for Dell, Compaq and IBM. "Hardware margins are approaching [those of] grocery stores," says Roger Kay, research manager at IDC, a technology consulting firm...