Word: marketization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When a debt-laden Domino's foundered in 1992, Monaghan returned to restructure the company and revive its fortunes. Domino's falling market share turned up again, and its worldwide sales have grown impressively--from $2.2 billion in 1993 to $3.2 billion last year. In his farewell letter to employees, Monaghan wrote--with perhaps a touch of pride--that the new owners of Domino's "are not buying a company in crisis, needing change to survive." Not at all. For years it was the flamboyant Monaghan himself who was in crisis, making his departure from Domino's only the latest...
Fear not: the market has responded, offering a choice of dozens of new books available at a bookstore or library near you. Even Dr. Spock updated his book just before he died, adding advice on such topics as open adoption, computers and divorce...
...list has enormous market appeal. The issue that features the rankings has become what the guide's founding editor, Mel Elfin, has described as the U.S. News equivalent of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's annual swimsuit issue: it is one of the best-selling issues of the year...
What Zemsky wants to know is this: What does a degree from Harvard, Hamilton or Humboldt State get you in life? Is it worth the investment? To test his methodology, Zemsky identified seven market segments and recruited 15 institutions--members of the 160-campus Knight Collaborative--that spread across all seven. He had them survey their class-of-1992 graduates six years out of college. Over the course of nine months, the participating schools were able to get a 48% response rate...
Teletubbies Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po may be top-sellers this season in the pre-school market, but adults this year are coveting blue cocktail dresses, cigars and berets...