Word: marketization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such laissez-faire battles delight men like "Missiles" McColl. If cyberspace really is the final frontier of finance, why not let it regulate itself, with a kind of frontier justice meted out by the market? And as these superbanks battle to survive against the Microsofts of the world--a battle in which the outcome is still anything but certain--the Wild West promises to get even wilder...
...well as affecting was, in part, that it was so out of step with the modern way of handling personal difficulty. In an age that makes the most--and generally the worst--of any disappointment, much less grief, in which people weep lavishly at the drop of a stock market, and the tendency of television is to devote a special to the heartbreak of psoriasis, here was decent, neoclassical, proper restraint...
...Clinton's visit, people should not forget that genocide took place in the heart of Africa, where about a million people lost their lives in a cruel civil war. I didn't see Clinton or the U.N. in Africa when that was happening. Now Big Industry smells a potential market in the "rising African countries," and here is Clinton to pave the way. But how can you talk of a renaissance in Africa when in Zimbabwe a sizable percentage of the people between 20 and 30 are HIV positive? VOLKER DOLITZSCH Steffisburg, Switzerland...
...MAGLIOZZI, hosts of Car Talk on National Public Radio: We'd vote to bring back the Peugeot. Because we love it? Non, non, non! Since it has been pulled out of the U.S. market--along with the Renault, the Fiat, the Alfa Romeo and the Yugo--there's just no one left to really make fun of on our show... [T]he arrogance of the French makes them such a delightful target...
Have husbands really evolved from hunters and gatherers into nurturers and helpmates? I don't think so. A yuppie dad I know puts Junior in the Snugli, hits the gourmet market, lights the grill, and then boasts of fixing dinner and tending baby. Poke a superdad in the middle of the night and quiz him on his kids' shoe sizes, their birthday-party preferences or Sara's science-fair entry. Tops, he nails two out of three...