Word: marketization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...judge also dismissed the students' allegations that Yale held monopoly power in the student housing market, saying students could have gone to another comparable university...
...mammoth BP-Amoco merger is a sign that there's still money to be made in the depressed global oil market -- but only on the back of heavy sacrifice. BP's $48 billion acquisition of Amoco will see about 6,000 jobs slashed in Cleveland and Houston. "With oil prices weak, the only way for companies to remain profitable is to cut their costs," says Fortune correspondent Nelson Schwartz. "Exxon and other companies have actually boosted their profits despite the depressed market by improving their efficiency." The merger will allow BP and Amoco to remain competitive by pursuing an economy...
...think Microsoft and Netscape would immediately recall their programs. Instead, both companies are trying to market their way out of this debacle. Microsoft points out that if you've updated to Windows 98, a corrective patch can automatically be delivered to your computer over the Net. If you don't have Windows 98, the company's unspoken message is: Buy it. You can also download the patch manually from the Web, however, without paying Microsoft $89 to fix its screwup (see time.com/personal for instructions). Netscape, which claims the bug is harder to invoke in its software, initially told users...
...their sexuality doesn't correspond to the physical parts they were born with, are one of the most underserved groups seeking health care today. Fearing hostility at the doctor's office, they may not seek medical care. Or they may obtain hormones and sex-reassignment surgery on the black market, often with disastrous results. Health providers must educate themselves, so they can offer patients the nonjudgmental care they deserve. DEAN LABATE, Executive Director Michael Callen-Audre Lorde Community Health Center Transgender Health & Education Clinic New York City...
...this boardroom tell-all generating more buzz than a Yahoo IPO? Surely everybody already suspects that the Internet bull market is a shell game. But who would have guessed that one of the minor players, having failed to find money dumb enough to make him rich, would get his payback with so deft a pen? Nobody comes off clean in this vengeful little book, not the venomous heirs of Robert Maxwell nor the philistine publishers of Windows magazine nor the executives at Time Inc. (where the author worked briefly as a consultant). "I'm a writer," Wolff tells his business...