Word: marketization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Also underway are plans for a manual called Linux@Harvard, which would provide instruction for running the operating system Linux. A variant of Unix, Linux has been growing in popularity. Project overseer Suhas K. Daftuar '00 said Linux is "more stable than other operating systems available in the mainstream market; it's faster; and it's free...
...After a while, the market dissipated for all except for one team--the Yankees. Steinbrenner has the money and the moxie to sit tight and wait for the opportunity to throw around his bucks...
Every year, nearly 1,000 people sign up to hear Martin S. Feldstein'62, Baker professor of economics, extol the virtues of the free market in Social Analysis 10: "Principles of Economics," inevitably the biggest class at Harvard. But if the invisible hand had its way, the class commonly known as Ec 10 might have competition for that coveted title...
Sometimes new technologies hit the market so thick and fast, you just have to stop for a second and say "Gee whiz." The companies that make computers and game consoles are pushing one another to build machines that do more and more, faster and faster, and as a result the past week has a seen the fall of a series of previously unbreakable technological barriers. Here?s a quick rundown of some of the science that?s getting dropped...
Skeptics--"pistonheads," Ballard calls them--say the company is decades away from making fuel-cell cars affordable, if it ever can. But some of the largest automakers are betting on a hydrogen future. DaimlerChrysler and Ford have paid $750 million for 35% of Ballard Power Systems, vowing to market fuel-cell cars within five years. Since hydrogen is difficult to store, current research focuses on fueling the cars with methanol, from which hydrogen would be extracted on board. That process would produce pollution, but not nearly as much as conventional engines give...