Word: marketization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...video companies have started to market their products more aggressively. For big releases, there are screenings and premiere parties. VCA, one of the four big adult-film companies, has put promotional billboards along Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, and Vivid has placed ads at the Burbank airport as well as along Sunset. Vivid's actresses also appear in ads for Fresh Jive clothing and Black Flys sunglasses...
...passion. And right now, to paraphrase hip-hop folkie Beck, rap is where it's at. In 1995 rap albums accounted for just 6.7% of all music sales; through the first half of this year that figure has risen to 10.3%. By contrast, over the same period, rock's market share fell, from 33.5% to 28%. In their new book It's Not Only Rock & Roll: Popular Music in the Lives of Adolescents (Hampton Press), Peter G. Christenson and Donald F. Roberts declare that today's rap defies its demographic stereotypes: research shows that 1) rap is about as popular...
When I first saw the Motorola Pagewriter 2000, the most popular two-way device on the market, I fell in lust. The thing is slightly larger than a deck of cards and has a teensy but functional keyboard (you can set it so that it makes the cutest clicking noises when you type) and a very readable monochrome screen. The Pagewriter's main function is to send and receive e-mail on the same network that pagers use. Something about handling e-mail while on the fly--from the train, say, or even in the bathtub--appealed...
Here's some bad news for anyone sitting on a stock that got hammered as the market fell this summer: your bright little idea may get pounded even more this fall as fellow shareholders sell to lock in tax advantages by year's end. Tough out there, huh? By acting now, though, you can turn the expected "tax-loss selling" into an opportunity. There are some extra risks and costs, but they don't amount to much if you have losers that you expect to sell anyway. The basic strategy is to dump your dogs now, so that when...
...around Christmas, and then to the "January effect" as investors buy stocks that have been driven arbitrarily low. But in a year like this one, with widespread losses, it makes sense to start sooner. "The smart move is to think like it's November in September," says John Manley, market strategist at Salomon Smith Barney...