Word: marketization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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dream," said Winbush, who was critical ofMicrosoft's mainstream market approach. "DuBoiswanted Encyclopedia Africana to define the worldfrom an African perspective. I think from anAfrican point of view, it has to be moreaggressive in discussion of Europeancolonization...
Requiring more capital than traditional student businesses, such as web design, real estate investment is a risky form of speculation; investors are subjected to the harsh market cycles that characterize the industry. Pettigrew, whose father also runs his own real estate business, grew especially interested in the business after his group came across their first deal...
...first deal was by any measure a sweet one. He and his partners, which include his brother Charles, now Oaksbranch's president, and his friend Mike Starcher, noticed that a single-tenant office building was significantly undervalued. "At that time, the market was still slightly depressed from the real estate crash in the late 80's," Pettigrew says...
Wheeler calls the phenomenon an "embarrassment of riches." He also points out the difference between basketball and an industry with international competitors. In the latter case, market pressures would have forced the warring sides to patch things up sooner...
...response may also be part of an effort to convince the public -- and more importantly the Justice Department -- that supplying the software for 90 percent of the world's personal computers doesn't constitute a monopoly. If courts believe otherwise and Microsoft is found guilty of unfairly dominating the market for Internet browsers, the company faces a potential threat of being carved up. But even that threat doesn't appear to worry investors: By midday, the stock was up more than 10 points...