Word: marketization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years away from actually happening. And the lines the Bells have opened up to competition still carry such fees that a long-distance company that uses them can?t offer competitive rates, leaving Bell Atlantic?s home base of New York, for all practical purposes, a one-company market." Reality, however, doesn?t have lobbyists; Bell Atlantic?s have for years been bending over backward to convince New York regulators (on whose go-ahead the FCC?s approval depends) that they?re ready, willing and legally able to wade into the long-distance fray. On their side is increasing political...
With the stock market still booming, University officials are reluctant to slow the pace of their fundraising, fearing an eventual economic downturn that will put a pinch on Harvard's finances and fund drives...
...money, unless it was so unbelievable, doesn't play a factor. The WCW couldn't do anything with me. They don't know how to market their talent...
...effects of tobacco and when they knew it, to help company lawyers fight future damage claims. Out of a sometimes fuddled sense of righteousness, Williams began smuggling documents from the B&W offices and copying them. The pilfered papers--which among other things documented the company's efforts to market to kids and its knowledge years ago of nicotine's addictive effects--eventually found their way into the national media. Williams' dossier, along with the whistle blowing of B&W's former chief of research, Jeffrey Wigand (whose story will be told in the upcoming movie The Insider), formed...
...frenetic job, but Chin crackles with rapid-fire energy. "We're going for the early-stage, high-risk, big hits," he says, piloting his midnight-blue Mercedes down I-280 on a recent Wednesday. "When I evaluate start-ups I ask, 'Is this a multibillion-dollar market? Can this be a billion-dollar company?' We want companies that can be industry leaders...