Word: marketization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this up: the hot tip for this spring and summer is to keep away from the smelly armpit scenes of Boston's meat market clubs or the trite local offerings. It's all about the private get-togethers. Keep it exclusive, keep it pretentious and, as always, keep Dr. Know on the guest list...
...Western mass consciousness today. The typical, and virtually universal, Western response to issues relating to child labor is advocating a blanket ban on such practices. Unfortunately, such a reaction, while completely understandable and certainly well intentioned, often overlooks the complexity of the underlying issues which govern labor market conditions in poorer countries. In fact, these bans are counterproductive to the extent that they may harm the very segments of society which they aim to protect: The trouble with a blanket ban on the use of child labor, for example, is that it will never make the problem go away...
...blame the good folks at HSTO for our rates, which are marginally higher than the best deals available. The real culprit is MCI, Harvard's long-distance provider. Frankly, the long-distance industry has profited handsomely from years of market control, and the high rates charged by the Big Three demonstrate that...
...today's wired society, however, there's a movement to bring real competition to the long-distance phone market, and the source of these cheap connections is an unusual one: major commercial Internet providers...
...This morning, activists from the Committee for the Moral Defense of Microsoft will brave Washington's rush hour, not to mention the nasty glares of enemy lobbyists, to march in front of the federal appeals court and demand an end to the "persecution" of Microsoft. The protestors are free-market, libertarian and objectivist crusaders who want to eliminate antitrust laws, and they've actually garnered more than 4,000 signatures with an online petition supporting Bill Gates's right to hawk Windows without government regulation...