Word: marketization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case of AID's so-called enterprise funds, the investment dollars are supplied directly by you, the taxpayer. In the case of OPIC, government-guaranteed notes are sold on the open market and the proceeds are put into a fund in which private investors have committed some of their money. A typical $150 million fund would consist of $100 million in OPIC-guaranteed notes and $50 million in private capital. Mark E. Van de Water, deputy vice president in OPIC's investment-development department, explains the process...
...wanted a modernist house. "These houses are so hard to come by, I would see the same people going out to see every home," he says. "I knew people who were actually taking off work to go out with their Realtors whenever a modernist home came on the market." So when the family of a good friend approached him about buying their home, a structure partly made of glass and birch that an architect originally designed for his family in 1950, Ball quickly put up the money and shut up until he moved in last August...
...there were a "pasts" market on the stock exchange similar to the futures market, it would be prudent to start investing in the midcentury now. For if ever one decade were in love with another, the '90s is crazy about the '50s. This is not the '50s of Happy Days or Pleasantville, where people are decent but unsophisticated. This is the sleekly glamorous decade of architects Richard Neutra, Pierre Koenig, John Lautner and Albert Frey and designers Charles and Ray Eames. This is the decade when the rest of the world looked with envy at American products, homes and life...
...functional furniture from the '50s has been getting so popular that upscale stores featuring it have sprung up in Manhattan's trendy meat-packing district and on the equally fashion-forward La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Ikea and Crate & Barrel have begun producing knockoffs for the mass market. The taste for things '50s-ish has also seeped into fashion (haven't you noticed all those sweater sets and pleated skirts?) and industrial design (wait till you get a look at the finlike taillights planned for future Cadillacs...
...Does management deserve a second chance? Put Dunlap in charge of a bloated company in trouble, and I'd buy the stock. (I'd also sell it within a year.) I also believe Henry Silverman, CEO of the marketing firm Cendant, will fix things in the wake of a disastrous merger with CUC International. His may be the ultimate display of agility. Silverman is selling chunks of the company he built, which is now worth more in liquidation than its value in the market...