Word: marketization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chief evangelist for something known as open-source software (which, not coincidentally, is the target of the new memos), a movement that is growing in popularity almost as fast as the Internet that helped spawn it. The idea is that the best way to build and market truly great software is to give it away and then enlist the collective talent of the thousands of programmers on the Net who will use it, debug it and ultimately improve and extend it. Case in point? Linux, a hugely popular version of the Unix operating system that is even overtaking Unix...
...course, the Net is nothing if not conspiracy-minded. No sooner had the memos leaked than some began to suggest that they were, in fact, planted. After all, Microsoft has long insisted that it is not a monopoly because its market dominance could be overturned in a flash by any programmer with a better idea...
...recent days might have overtaxed his ballast. In the course of two weeks, Arafat has seen the clinching of a new peace accord with Israel, the worst anti-Palestinian Authority riots ever in the West Bank, the attempted slaughter of 40 Israeli schoolchildren, another botched bombing of a Jerusalem market and the issuing of unprecedented threats against his life. All this for the sake of a peace agreement that most Palestinians think the Israelis will not honor anyway. Arafat has always led a dangerous life. But if he thought retiring as a revolutionary exile and returning home...
...voyeurism offered by the "door-to-door salesman" frame. Sadly, the possibility of venturing into the mansions of West Los Angeles and meeting the natives remains largely unexploited. While Tommy does go door-to-door, the characters he encounters are not archetypal Angelenos, but a stereotypically elderly market. A little closer to the mark and this movie would have many movie-industry types squirming in their seats, but The Alarmist is estranged from the hip alarm-buying populous of aging baby boomers. Gale and her son are a closer approximation; the aesthetic is vaguely right, as is the "advanced" sexual...
...YORK: Give Theglobe.com credit -- and about $700 million -- for having perfect timing. Three weeks after canceling its IPO because of market doldrums, the chat-heavy Internet portal took one look into Wall Street's newly refilled capital pool and went public Friday -- and struck it rich. Priced at $9, the stock peaked at $97 before settling in at $63 for a payday of some $691 million in market capitalization -- a record for Internet upstarts...