Word: marketization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spectrum of critics who charge him with selling out American values in the name of trade with China. The impression they give is that Washington will concede anything to do business deals with Beijing. China is a tough customer when it comes to buying American. There is an enticing market there of 1.2 billion people, but most U.S. trade with China runs the other way. The deficit is running at $4.3 billion because Americans buy 70% of their low-end consumer goods, like shoes, toys and textiles, from China, which has replaced richer Asian nations as the cheapest supplier (which...
...Chinese market remains largely untapped because Beijing works at keeping it closed. The government is genuinely worried about competition at a time when massive reform of its moribund state enterprises is throwing millions out of work, but it is still a locked-down, state-protected economy. By dint of insistent negotiating, the U.S. has since 1993 reached 15 trade agreements that have opened the door somewhat. Included are two very difficult treaties to protect intellectual-property rights. The world's worst pirater, says U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky, "has gotten very serious about this because they have to if they...
There is no such generic term (yet) for the storage medium that's quickly replacing the standard floppy. Instead, each of the competitors in this booming market is selling its own thing: ultra-high-density floppies by many other names. You've probably heard of the Zip drive, for instance, the purple-hued peripheral from Iomega that reads and writes to 100-meg removable discs. Lots of people use Zips at my office. So, a few months ago, instead of doing a lick of research, I bolted out to the nearest Staples and picked up a Zip drive...
...market for ultra-high-density floppy drives is doubling every year, according to Bob Amatruda, a senior analyst at International Data Corp. That's partly thanks to the hordes of folks who are buying sub-$1,000 PCs that come with teensy hard drives. Likewise, as more people download games, music and video from the Web, they're fast running out of room. Some 7.8 million ultra-high-density floppy drives will sell in 1998, IDC predicts...
...sale, I'll bet you look closely to see which items are on sale because they've gone out of style or out of season, and which ones are damaged goods. And that's just how you ought to shop when there's a clearance sale in the stock market, like the one that knocked the Dow down 207 points last Monday. But there you have to inspect the goods especially closely. Stocks aren't vacuum cleaners; if they break when you get home, you can't take them back to your broker for a refund...